Jurassic Period
201-145 million years ago · Event
Pangaea splits, the climate turns warm and wet, and dinosaurs inherit an emptied world: this is the age of giants, when the long-necked sauropods — Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus — become the largest land animals ever, hunted by Allosaurus, while Stegosaurus grazes below and the first birds flutter out of the feathered dinosaurs above. Named for the Jura mountains, it is the period whose name became shorthand for the whole dinosaur age.
On these timelines: The Age of Dinosaurs, Master
More from The Age of Dinosaurs
- Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction (66000000 BCE)
- Tyrannosaurus rex (68000000 BCE)
- Mesozoic Era (252000000 BCE)
- Paleozoic Era (541000000 BCE)
- Cretaceous Period (145000000 BCE)
- Triassic Period (252000000 BCE)
- Archaeopteryx and the first birds (150000000 BCE)
- Permian Period (299000000 BCE)
Around 201000000 BCE
- Pangaea begins to break apart (200000000 BCE)
- Triassic–Jurassic extinction (201000000 BCE)
- Coelophysis (216000000 BCE)
- Plateosaurus (214000000 BCE)