PALEO200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Laramidia, Bipedalism, Mesozoic

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Paleontology
• Course: PALEO200
• Professor: Angelica Torices

Document Summary

> today, the earth has several continents: north america and south america, europe and. Asia, africa, australia, and antarctica. in addition to these continents are large islands like greenland, new zealand, Madagascar and the southeast asian islands: however, if you were to travel back in time to the permian period, and observe the. Prosauropods and small theropods similar to coelophysis are found worldwide. > this similarity continued into the jurassic: e. g - the classic" dinosaur from the jurassic morrison formation of the western usa have very similar counterparts in the tendaguru formation of tanzania and the lourinha. > diplodocids were adapted to reach high and prune of the most delectable(delicious) > grazing(feeding) and browsing in the shadows of sauropods were a variety of smaller. Jurassic herbivores: among them were the thyreophorans, a group that includes the ornithsichians with body armour, by far the most well-known of the jurassic thyreophorans was stegosaurus.