This shift allowed larger plants, particularly seed ferns, to expand and form new ... toward the lush forests that would define the Mesozoic era—the age of the dinosaurs. Related Stories ...

It forms the transition between the late Palaeozoic Era, which was mainly populated by synapsids, or mammal-like reptiles, and the Mesozoic Era ... The environment was dominated by conifers, ferns and ...

Scientists divide the Mesozoic Era into three periods: the Triassic ... These changes allowed plants such as ferns and horsetails to grow over huge areas. Some of this vegetation became the fossil ...

3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era) was a desolate time in ... On firm ground, moss, liverwort, and ferns carpeted forests of conifers, ginkgoes, and palm-like ...

Magnolia, ficus, and sassafras quickly outnumbered ferns, conifers ... same in the new era that dawned after the close of the Mesozoic era.