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It is hard to say what animal group was the most successful during the Mesozoic. However, reptiles were the so called "dominant" animals. Dinosaurs lived on land, pterosaurs flew through the air, and plesiosaurs, icthyosaurs, and mosasaurs were some of the largest creatures in the oceans.
It is hard to say what animal group was the most successful during the Mesozoic. However, reptiles were the so called "dominant" animals. Dinosaurs lived on land, pterosaurs flew through the air, and plesiosaurs, icthyosaurs, and mosasaurs were some of the largest creatures in the oceans.
Reptiles were the main vertebrates during the Mesozoic. There were dinosaurs on land and pterosaurs in the sky. There were also marine reptiles like plesiosaurs and mosasaurs.
The type of animal that lived only during the Mesozoic Era (Age of Reptiles) were the dinosaurs. They evolved during the late Triassic and the Jurassic periods, and were the largest land creatures during the Cretaceous period of the era.
It is hard to say what animal group was the most successful during the Mesozoic. However, reptiles were the so called "dominant" animals. Dinosaurs lived on land, pterosaurs flew through the air, and plesiosaurs, icthyosaurs, and mosasaurs were some of the largest creatures in the oceans.
The Mesozoic era.
The dinosaurs were the dominant land animals during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, rising to dominance during the late Triassic.
Dinosaurs
The dominant land animal life during the Mesozoic was reptiles and dinosaurs.However, it is important to note that dominant does not mean the most biodiverse, common, or consisting of the greatest biomass. It simply means that they were the most common large vertebrates. Insects, for example, have always beaten reptiles in biodiversity and I believe biomass, too.
The Mesozoic era is divided into three periods Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. During the early Triassic, corals appeared. Seed plants dominated the land, in the northern hemisphere, conifers flourished. Glossopteris was the dominant southern hemisphere tree during the Triassic period. Many new dinosaurs appeared during the Jurassic period. Giant plant eating dinosaurs dominated the Earth. carnivores such as Allosaurus and Composognathus were plentiful. Many bird-like dinosaurs also thrived during this period. The Cretaceous period saw the heyday of the dinosaurs. Many new species of dinosaurs evolved during this period. New dinosaurs such as, the deadly t-rex and the extremely large Giganotosaurus appeared for the first time as did Triceratops and many others.
The Mesozoic era (age of the dinosaur) came after the Paleozoic era which was dominated primarily by marine animals with virtually no dominate land based animals.nothing much ... they were created when the earth was created
Mammals became the dominant land animals in the early Paleocene period of the Cenozoic era, after the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic era.