The bottom rung of the food chain was filled with microscopic plants called phytoplankton ... of dinosaurs and the first mammals in the late Triassic, starting around 230 million years ago.

As flowering plants were yet to evolve the planet was dominated by ... crocodilians and turtles. By the Late Triassic there was a shift in dominance between the mammal-like reptiles and the archosaurs ...

New research from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart reconstructs Triassic terrestrial ecosystems using fossils ...

This meant that differences between animals or plants found in different areas were minor ... Coelophysis lived towards the end of the Triassic Period, as did these other Late Triassic dinosaurs. At ...