Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan - Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Life

Writte n by Pr of e ssor Anusuya Chinsamy - T ur an Illustra ted by Ange la Rizza and Daniel Long AND OTHER PREHISTORIC LIFE

re you ready fo r an amazing expedition that st arts at the beginning of life on E ar th? In this book , you will see ho w the earliest life-f orms dev eloped in w ater, and how much late r plants and then animals move d onto land. Y o u will encounte r weird and wonderful pr ehisto ric creatur es that will challenge y our imagination, including fearsome fish, gigantic insects, and, y es, dinosaurs galor e! Furt her on, you will learn what bec ame of dinosaurs and their descendants, and how mammals came to dominate our planet. Finally , as our voy age dr aws to a close, you will meet early human relativ es and see the animals that liv ed alongside them. Come, lets begin Prof e ssor Anusuya Chinsamy - T ur an Author

Pal eozoic Er a ...............................4 Strom atolit e... .......................................... Dickinsonia .............................................. Anomalocaris ..................................... The Cambrian Ex plosion .......... Halluci genia ........................................ Cook sonia ............................................ Eury pterus ............................................. Austral aster .......................................... Cephalaspis ........................................ Erbenochile .......................................... Archaeopte ris ..................................... Helioph yllum ....................................... Dunkleoste us ...................................... Ti ktaalik ................................................... Ichth yoste ga ....................................... Moving onto land .......................... Avi culopecten .................................... Lepidode ndron ................................. Calamites ............................................. Arthropleura ........................................ Meganeur a ......................................... Deltob lastus ........................................ Dimetrodon ......................................... Seymouria ............................................ Helic oprion .......................................... To dites ..................................................... Mesozoic Era .............................58 Araucario xylon .................................. Herre rasaurus .................................... Theropods ............................................ Morganu codon ................................ Oxynotice ras ...................................... Cryolophosaurus ............................. Massospondy lus .............................. Steno ptery gius .................................. Lepido tes ............................................... Liopleurodon ...................................... Araucar ia mirabilis .......................... Yi ................................................................. Allosaurus .............................................. Stegos aurus ........................................ Thyre ophora ns...................................8 Diplodocus .......................................... Pterod actylus ...................................... Ken trosaurus ....................................... Archaeopte ryx .................................. Sarcosuc hus ....................................... Po lacanthus ..................................... I guanodon ........................................ Ornithopods ................................... Ps ittaco saurus ................................. Confuciusornis ............................... Sinosauro pteryx ........................... Mutta burrasaurus ....................... Neohibo lites .................................... Pa tagotit an ...................................... Sauropodomorphs ..................... Magnolia .......................................... Spinosaurus ..................................... Hesper ornis ...................................... Elasmosaurus .................................. Maiasaur a ........................................ Pa rasauro lophus ........................... Euoplo cephalus ............................ Ornithomimus ................................ Ve locirapt or ..................................... Archelon ............................................ Styrac osaurus ................................ Margin ocephalians .................... Ovirapto r .......................................... Plioplatec arpus ............................. Edmo ntosaurus ............................. Deinocheirus ................................... Pa chycep halosaurus .................. Tr icerat ops ........................................ Ty rannosaurus ................................ Cenozoic Era ........................... Nummulit e ........................................ Tit anoboa .......................................... Heliob atis .......................................... Mene ................................................... Florissantia ....................................... Basilosaurus ..................................... Uinta therium ................................... Archaeotherium ............................ Amber .................................................. Phorusrhacos .................................. Megalodon ..................................... Gomphotherium .......................... Australo pithecus ........................... Coelodonta .................................... Ice a ges ............................................. Glyptodon ....................................... Smilodon ........................................... Thylacoleo ........................................ Proc optodon ................................... Arctodu s ............................................ Mylodon ............................................ Pa laeolox odo n falcon eri ......... Wo olly mammoth ........................ Dire wo lf ............................................ Rec ently ex tinct ............................. Tr ee of lif e ......................................... Pro nunciations................................ Glossary ............................................ Visual guide .................................... Acknowledgments ......................

arth is ove r 4.5 billion years old. T o try and mak e sense of this immense time, scientists divide it up into chunk s. F or much of the first 4 billion years, kno wn as the P re cambrian, only micro scopic life existe d. F am iliar animals began to appear at the beginning of the Phaneroz oic E on , which is divided into thr ee big er as: the P a leozo ic, Mesoz oic, and Ceno zoic. The P a leozo ic Era lasted 289 million y ears, and it is split into six diff erent periods: the Cambrian, Ord ovician, Silurian, D evoni an, Carbonife rous, and P e rmian. This era f eature d an explosion of diff erent life-fo rms, first in the oceans and then on land. More and more plants and insects appeared on land during the D evonia n. To ward the end of the period, the first animals with four legs cr awled ont o land and fore sts cov ered t he ground. This period ended with a second mass extinction e vent. Devonian Period ( - 358 MYA ) In the C arbonifer ous, the co ntinents moved e ven clos er together . The southern regions we re cov ered w ith ice, but there were al so plenty of tropic al for ests. So me amphibians gave rise t o the first r eptiles. Carbonif er ous Period ( - 298 MYA )