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Dinosaurs
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What is a dinosaur?• Dinosauria
– Stands upright (erect, not sprawling)– Ball-and-socket hip joint– Straight knee joint– Straight ankle joint– Ankle bones closely attached to the shin
bone
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Erect stance of mammals and dinosaurs
Sprawling posture of most reptiles
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Where did dinosaurs come from?• The first dinosaurs
were small bipeds• They ate insects and
small vertebrates• Then, after 5 million
years they had their chance!
• They radiated after a mass extinction 225 myr ago
“Archosauria”
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The First Dinosaurs
• Eoraptor
• Herrerasaurus
Both are from the Ischigualasto Formation in Patagonia, Argentina
cc. Arthur Weasley
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• Origin of the Earth: 4600 Myr• Origin of life: 3500 Myr• First fishes: 545 Myr• First tetrapods: 380 Myr• First reptiles: 320 Myr• First archosaurs: 250 Myr• First dinosaurs: 230 Myr
When did this happen?
cc. Arthur Weasley
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Mesozoic Era• Mesozoic: “The Age of the Dinosaurs”
• The world of the dinosaurs was very different from the world today
The supercontinent Pangea
cc. Gerhard Boeggemann