Plateosaurus
c. 214-204 million years ago · Event
The first dinosaur giant: a long-necked plant-eater up to ten metres long, browsing Triassic Europe in herds — over a hundred skeletons have been dug from German and Swiss bonebeds. An early cousin of the sauropod line, Plateosaurus is the announcement of what dinosaurs will become once the Jurassic gives them room.
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)
- Jurassic Period (201000000 BCE)
- Cretaceous Period (145000000 BCE)
- Triassic Period (252000000 BCE)
- Archaeopteryx and the first birds (150000000 BCE)
Around 214000000 BCE
- First dinosaurs (230000000 BCE)
- First mammals (225000000 BCE)
- First pterosaurs take flight (228000000 BCE)
- Pangaea begins to break apart (200000000 BCE)
- Triassic–Jurassic extinction (201000000 BCE)
- Coelophysis (216000000 BCE)