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Jurassic Period: Media
geochronology
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Learn about what is believed to be the oldest soft tissue ever found, in a dinosaur...
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Archaeopteryx is the earliest known dinosaur that's also a bird.
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Birds descended from dinosaurs, but they don't have their ancestors' bite.
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Distribution of landmasses, mountainous regions, shallow seas, and deep ocean basins...
Adapted from: C.R. Scotese, The University of Texas at Arlington
The stratigraphic chart of geologic time.
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Paleogeography and paleoceanography of Late Jurassic time. Present-day coastlines...
Adapted from: C.R. Scotese, The University of Texas at Arlington
Fossil of the plesiosaur Cryptocleidus, a large marine reptile of the Jurassic...
Courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, New York
Fossil dragonfly, a form dating to the Late Jurassic Period.
© Layne Kennedy—The Image Bank Unrelaeased/Getty Images
Probable birth of an Ichthyosaurus, Early Jurassic fossil from Württemberg,...
Wolf Strache, Stuttgart
Apatosaurus, a late Jurassic dinosaur, was a massive herbivore that weighed...
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Allosaurus, a late Jurassic dinosaur, was a large fearsome predator with...
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Stegosaurus, model by Stephen Czerkas, 1986.
© Stephen Czerkas; photograph, courtesy of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Leaves and fruit of the female ginkgo, or maidenhair tree (Ginkgo biloba).
John Kohout—Root Resources/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
The Jurassic Period and its subdivisions.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Source: International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS)
A cross section showing preserved collagen in a vascular canal of a rib of Lufengosaurus,...
Robert Reisz
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