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| TRIASSIC | Rhaetian | Dinosaurs were the dominant fauna, conifers and ferns dominated the flora. |
| Norian
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Extinction event which cleared out the rhyncosaurs, most of the mammal like reptiles and the basal archosaurs. Dinosaurs began to diversify and became abundant. | |
| Carnian
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Dominated by Rhynchosaurs, and mammal like reptiles, dinosaurs were only modestly sized, and lived mostly in environments not suitable for the dominant species. | |
| Lamina
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The Flora and Fauna was similar to the Anisian, with rhyncosaurs becoming the dominant herbivore, it also saw the rise of large thecodont carnivores | |
| Anisian
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The Flora of the time was dominated by the seed fern Dicroidium. The land fauna was becoming dominated by the diademodontoids, and rhyncosaurs. | |
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Scythian
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The world was dominated by the dicynodont Lystrosaurus, carnivores were small to medium sized therocephalians and cynodonts and the first well known thecodontian Protersuchus |
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