Forests of ferns, cycads, and conifers. Warm, moist, tropical breezes. This was the Jurassic, which took place 199 to 145 million years ago. At the start of the period, the breakup of the ...

The Jurassic Period is named after the Jura Mountains ... the Jurassic was the age of the gymnosperms – a group of seed-producing plants that includes conifers, cycads and ginkgos. A lot of the ...

At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants of the supercontinent Pangaea as rodents scurried at their feet through forests of ferns, cycads, and conifers. At the end of the ...

It comes after the Jurassic Period and before the Paleogene - the first period of ... with understories of ferns and cycads,' explains prehistoric plant expert Dr Paul Kenrick. Unlike the temperate ...

The dinosaur roamed the Earth during the Early Jurassic period, over 200 million years ... species was likely devoured on plants like ferns, cycads, ginkgos, and conifers. The dinosaur fossil ...