3:10 |
Permian limestones mark boundary of Permian extinction |
4:00 | Douglas Erwin (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution), Yugan Jin: Early Triassic
paper-thin bivalves (NOT crinoids as shown in the caption) indicate low oxygen (Zhejiang Province, southern China) |
5:00 |
2-mile thick lava beneath oil fields due to Permian volcanic eruptions (west Siberia) |
10:20 |
Supercontinent Pangea formed 300 MYA, surrounded by deep ocean trench, causing
lava dome to rise |
12:00 |
Drilling for methane hydrate frozen in deep ocean (off Japan) |
13:30 |
carbon 12 released by
melting of methane hydrate at Permian boundary indicates global warming and decreased oxygen (Zhejiang Province, southern China) |
17:40 |
Berthierine mineral indicates
low oxygen in early Triassic (10%) from death of plants and methane reacting with oxygen (Transantarctic Mountain Range, Antarctica) |
19:50 |
Cynodont managed to survive |
20:40 | Plans and
dinosaurs returned |
20:50 |
Apatosaurus |
20:55 |
Allosaurus |
23:00 |
Dinosaurs had air sac respiratory system like birds for efficient breathing in low oxygen |
29:20 |
Thrinaxodon ribcage covered only its chest, can support a diaphram for breathing, and twist for nursing |
32:00 |
Mammal mother and offspring fossil side by side indicated care of young (South Africa) |
32:40 |
Mammal fossil with placenta 125 MYA (China) |
34:50 |
Asteroid strike wiped out dinosaurs 65 MYA |
37:10 |
Carpolestes had
opposable thumb like primates 56 MYA |
38:20 |
Diatryma was a ferocious predator, almost 2 meters tall (Europe and Americas, Africa, Antarctica, but not Asia) |
44:10 |
Hyaenodontids predatory mammals had 3 sets of teeth and were fast runners; evolved in Asia |
46:00 |
After ice melted, mammals moved across land bridge to North America;
Hyaenodontids hunted down Diatryma |
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 3:10 Permian limestones |
 4:00 paper-thin bivalves |
 5:00 2-mile thick lava beneath oil fields due to Permian volcanic eruptions |
 10:20 Supercontinent Pangea |
 10:20 lava dome |
 12:00 Drilling for methane hydrate |
 13:30 carbon 12 |
 13:30 melting of methane hydrate |
 17:40 Berthierine mineral |
 17:40 low oxygen in early Triassic (10%) |
 19:50 Cynodont |
 20:40 dinosaurs |
 20:50 Apatosaurus |
 20:55 Allosaurus |
 23:00 Dinosaurs had air sac respiratory system |
 29:20 Thrinaxodon |
 32:00 Mammal mother and offspring fossil side by side |
 32:40 Mammal fossil with placenta |
 34:50 Asteroid strike |
 37:10 Carpolestes |
 37:10 opposable thumb like primates |
 38:20 Diatryma |
 44:10 Hyaenodontids |
 46:00 After ice melted, mammals moved across land bridge |
 46:00 Hyaenodontids hunted down Diatryma |
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