GEOL 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Dinos, Little Foot, Mesozoic
5 Dec 2016
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The mid to late mesozoic world, part 2. There are mammals running around during the mesozoic, they were about the size of a wolf cub. Some climbed, lived in holes in the ground. There is no known dinosaur that had a lifestyle where they lived underground in holes. Diapsids are all the dinosaurs and birds of the amniotes, from the diagram of the amniotes. There are many stages in this period. Flowers and plants were just now getting started during this time. Vicious carnivores were stalking the plant eating dinos. Dinos that flew were flying around: covered in a very fine covering of fur, tarradactuls. They were about to climb up trees and float down. Engineers showed us that there was no way that they could have flew by themselves. Towards the end of the jurassic, about 155 ma a warm shallow sea should with islands covered much of what is now germany.
