Triassic–Jurassic extinction
c. 201 million years ago · Event
A mass extinction clears ecological niches that the dinosaurs would come to dominate.
On these timelines: Master, The Age of Dinosaurs
Around 201000000 BCE
- Jurassic Period (201000000 BCE)
- Pangaea begins to break apart (200000000 BCE)
- Coelophysis (215000000 BCE)
- Plateosaurus (214000000 BCE)