Plants

Ferns and fern allies

Flowering plants

Magnoliids

Monocots

Basal Eudicots and unplaced core Eudicots

Superasterids - basal

Superasterids

Superrosids

Angiosperms - other

Arthropods

Insects

Vertebrates

Dinosaurs

Synapsids

Popular culture

Amusement parks and attractions

* ''August 28th:'' The Calgary Zoo's Prehistoric Park opened. Paleontologist Darren Tanke has described Prehistoric Park as "an extensive treed park and pathways containing numerous life-sized concrete dinosaurs and other prehistoric life". It also had "two long, walkthrough display buildings containing a

Corythosaurus ''Corythosaurus'' (; ) is a genus of hadrosaurid "duck-billed" dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period (geology), period, about 77–75.7 million years ago, in what is now Laramidia, western North America. Its name is derived from the Anci ...

skeleton and individual dinosaur bones", as well as exhibits of paleozoic invertebrates and

prehistoric plants Paleobotany or palaeobotany, also known as paleophytology, is the branch of botany dealing with the recovery and identification of plant fossils from geological contexts, and their use for the biological reconstruction of past environments (pale ...

. It became a popular attraction among visitors to the zoo.

Literature

* In 1937, Morant imagined a

feathered dinosaur A feathered dinosaur is any species of dinosaur possessing feathers. That includes all species of birds, and in recent decades evidence has accumulated that many non-avian dinosaur species also possessed feathers in some shape or form. The exte ...

-like animal that lived during the

Triassic The Triassic ( ; sometimes symbolized 🝈) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya. The Triassic is t ...

and glided about on four wings. This portrayal reflected contemporary scientific speculations attempting to reconstruct the hypothetical ancestor of birds. Fossils from China later revealed the existence of just this sort of animal.

References

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