Chapter 11: The Triassic Takeover

Review Questions for Chapter 11

The Diapsid Reptiles

• UC Berkeley's Introduction to the Diapsids
• An Overview of the Fossil Diapsids from the Russian Dinosaur Exposition Website in St. Louis
• Tree of Life Website Guide to the Diapsids
• Lecture Notes Explaining those Confusing Patterns of Temporal Fenestrae
• Unranked Indented Classification of Reptiles with Emphasis on Lepidosauromorpha
• Another Tuatara Image and Striking Snake from Manifesto for Herpetology at the University of Texas at Austin
  
  
• UC Berkeley's Introduction to the Diapsid Archosauromorphs
• The Permian Gliding Weigeltisaur Diapsid, Sharovipteryx
• Evidence of the Gondwanaland Supercontinent from Fossils of the Marine Diapsid Reptile,
  Mesosaurus First Argued by Alfred Wegener
  
• Mesosaurus Fossil or Here or Here
  Visit the Source of the Mesosaurus [Link Broken] and Sharovipteryx Images

The Triassic Diapsid Takeover: The Pattern

• Lecture Notes on the Triassic World
• Yale's Peabody Museum Panorama from the Triassic
• Excellent Background Details from the Triassic Panorama
• Triassic Paleogeography of the Southwestern US
• Ages of the Mesozoic

Respiration, Metabolism, and Locomotion

• Richard Cowen's Locomotion and Respiration in Marine Air-Breathing Vertebrates

Animation courtesy of ©1997 Richard Hammond

Thecodonts

• Cladistic Reclassification of "Thecodonts" (Archosauromorphs that are not Crocodiles, Pterosaurs, or Dinosaurs)
• Images of Late Permian Predatory Thecodonts, the Most Ancient Known Thecodont, Archosaurus, and the Lion-sized Garjainia (With a Description of the Interaction Between these Agile Predators and the Large but Slow Dicynodonts)

Rhynchosaurs

• New Article on Rhynchosaurs
• Rhynchosaurs from Shropshire, Wales
• Home Page of Michael Benton

Dinosaur Ancestors

• Introduction to an Early (225 Ma) South African Near-Dinosaur, Euparkeria
• Skull of Ancient Near-Dinosaur, Herrerasaurus, or Many Excellent Details Here
• One of North America's Oldest (210 Mya) Known Dinosaurs was a Fierce Predator: Coelophysis
• GiantPhylogenetic Classification and Genus Index of the Dinosaurs
• T. Mike Keesey's Selected Dinosaur Links

[Go to Previous: Chapter 10]

[Go to Next: Chapter 12]

[Return to History of Life listing by chapter]

[Return to Honors 301T Home Page]

This page was created Fall, 1998, last checked on 3/19/01 and last updated on 12/13/04.
If you find broken links or if you find additional cool sites that are appropriate,
please send them and the Web address for this page to Prof. Eernisse.
This page © D.J. Eernisse, 1998-2005.