1. Life in the Mesozoic The Age of Dinosaurs

2. Mesozoic Life Highlights Oceans repopulated with “Modern Fauna” Dominant land animals - Dinosaurs First Flowering Plants & Social Insects First Mammals First Birds Two Mass Extinctions (end-Triassic and end-Cretaceous)

3. What’s Happening in the Oceans?

4. Phytoplankton Erupt

5. Paleozoic vs. Mesozoic Rugosa & Tabulata Corals Hexacorals

6. Reefs - Hexacorals

7. Reefs - Rudists

8. Paleozoic vs. Mesozoic BrachiopodsBivalves & Gastropods

9. Inoceramids

10. Paleozoic vs. Mesozoic CrinoidsEchinoids (Sea Urchins)

11. Paleozoic vs. Mesozoic TrilobitesCrustaceans

12. Life was Adapting to Major Marine Predators

13. Ammanoids - Parapuzosia

14. Bony Fish - Xiphactinus

15. Marine Reptiles

16. Placodonts

17. Plesiosaurs: Elasmosaurus

18. Kronosaurus

19. Ichthyosaurus

20. Mosasaurus Largest- 150 ft long!

21. Marine Reptile Relations

22. Giant Sea Turtles

23. The “Green Report” Flower Power Add Color to the Earth

24. Angiosperms

25. First Flowers Magnolia Cretaceous Flower

26. Flowers and Insects Cretaceous

27. Paleozoic vs. Mesozoic Large AmphibiansFrogs and Salamanders Paracyclotosaurus

28. Triassic Frogs

29. Mesozoic Reptiles Synapsids (Mammals) Anapsids (Turtles) Diapsids Lizards & Snakes Crocodiles Pterosaurs Marine Reptiles Dinosaurs & Birds Archosaurs

30. Archosaurs: Early Diapsids

31. Big Dinosaur Questions What are Dinosaurs? How do we understand Dinosaur behavior? Where dinosaurs warm-blooded (endotherms) or cold-blooded (ectotherms)? Did birds evolve from dinosaurs? What caused the extinction of the dinosaurs?

32. Dinosaurs vs. “Reptiles” 1.Upright posture  Legs beneath the body rather than to the side 2.Unique arrangement of ankle hinge (and other skeletal differences)

33. The 2 Major Lines of Dinosaurs

35. Critters Gallery critters.pixel-shack.com Russel Gooday & John Hughes

36. Ornithischia “Bird-Hipped Dinosaurs” 1.Stegosaurs 2.Hadrosaurs 3.Ankylosaurs 4.Pachycephalosaurs 5.Ceratopsids All Herbivores

37. Hadrosaurs - “Duck-billed Dinosaurs” Ouranosaurus

38. Hadrosaurs Parasauralophus

40. Hadrosaurs Maiasaurus

41. Laellynasaura

42. Stegosaurs Stegosaurus

43. Ankylosaurids - Natures Tanks Euoplocephalus

44. Ankylosaurids ankylosaurus

45. Pachycephalosaurs - “Bone Heads” Pachycephalosaurus

46. Ceratopsids “Horned Dinos” Torosaurus

47. Ceratopsids Triceratops