Recently, geologist Dr Benjamin Burger identified a rock layer in Utah that he believed might have formed during the Permian and subsequent
Triassic period that could shed light on the cause of the Great Dying.
The only exception until recently were dinosaur footprints from the
Triassic period in the High Tatras, discovered in 1977 in Ticha dolina.
In the Late
Triassic period, the hills of south Wales and the south west of England formed an archipelago that was inhabited with small dinosaurs and relatives of the Tuatara, a reptilian fossil from New Zealand.
The newly discovered fossils aren't quite that old but they do date to the end of the
Triassic period, the beginning of the age of dinosaurs.
Reflecting primitive characteristics from the
Triassic period, the sixgill shark has more extinct relatives than alive.
It is the first North American fossil horseshoe crab from rocks of the
Triassic Period.
The show includes the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the terror of the ancient terrain, as well as the Plateosaurus and Liliensternus from the
Triassic period, the Stegosaurus and Allosaurus from the Jurassic period and Torosaurus and Utahraptor from the awesome Cretaceous period.
The creature, closely related to the plesiosaur with its long neck, was about 10ft long and lived during the Middle
Triassic period when the first dinosaurs ruled the earth.
Published in Science Advances, the study found strong evidence of this coral-algae relationship in fossilized coral skeletons dating back to the late
Triassic period, a time when the first dinosaurs appeared and Earth's continents were a single land mass known as Pangea.
Teleocrater, a 7ft to 10ft long and 2ft tall carnivore weighing between 20lb and 65lb, walked the Earth during the
Triassic period and predates true dinosaurs by around 10 million years.
It lived during the
Triassic Period millions of years before the first dinosaurs.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Over the next 100 to 200 years, carbon dioxide concentrations in the Earth's atmosphere will head towards values not seen since the
Triassic period, 200 million years ago.
Triassic period - from 230 million to 190 million years ago; dinosaurs, marine reptiles; volcanic activity