The third in a series of five books, this book tells the history of life in the middle of the Mesozoic Era during the Jurassic Period, which was 201 and 145 million years ago. In this period, dinosaurs walked the Earth, the seas were populated by ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and marine crocodiles, and the skies were filled with pterosaurs and the first primitive birds. In this beautiful full-color illustrated book, you will learn about: Table of Contents: The Formation of the Solar System and the Earth The Hadean Eon The Archaean Eon The Proterozoic Eon The Phanerozoic Eon - The Paleozoic Era - The End of the Paleozoic Era - The Mesozoic Era - The Triassic Period Subdivisions (Epochs) of the Jurassic Period - Early Jurassic Epoch - Middle Jurassic Epoch - Late Jurassic Epoch Plankton Marine Invertebrates Fish Sauropterygians, Plesiosaurs and Pliosaurs Turtles Ichthyosaurs Thalattosuchians Pleurosaurids Insects Spiders Lungfish Amphibians Lepidosauromorpha - Pantestudines - Kuehneosauridae - Rhynchocephalia - Squamata Therapsids and Mammals Archosaurs - Pterosaurs - Crocodylomorpha - Dinosaurs and Birds Saurischia and Ornithischia Theropods - Coelophysids - Dilophosaurids - Cryolophosaurus - Ceratosaurids - Abelisaurids - Noasaurids - Megalosaurids - Spinosaurids - Piatnitzkysaurids - Gasosaurus and Kaijiangosaurus - Monolophosaurus - Allosaurids - Metriacanthosaurids - Carcharodontosaurids - Coelurids - Compsognathids - Tyrannosauroidea - Maniraptoriformes, Maniraptorans and Birds - Archaeoteryx and the Origin of Birds - Ornitholestes Sauropodomorpha and Sauropods - Basal Sauropodomorphs (Anchisaurs and Massospondylids) - Basal Sauropods (Vulcanodontids) - Shunosaurus - Diplodocids - Dicraeosaurids - Rebbachisaurids - Haplocanthosaurus - Brachiosaurids - Camarasaurids - Cetiosaurids - Mamenchisaurids Ornithischians - Basal Ornithischians (including Heterodontosaurids) - Lesothosaurus - Basal Thyreophora - Stegosauria - Ankylosauria - Basal Neornithischia - Ornithopoda - Ceratopsia - Pachycephalosauria Triassic Jurassic Extinction Event The Pliensbachian Toarcian Extinction Event The End Jurassic Extinction Event The Cretaceous Period The Cenozoic Era