Jurassic Period Facts for Kids

18 Jurassic Period Facts For Kids

1. The Jurassic Period is a geological period during the Mesozoic Era of the Phanerozoic Eon.
2. The Jurassic Period was the second of three geological periods during the Mesozoic Era.
3. The Jurassic Period was the second longest geological period of the Mesozoic Era.
4. The Jurassic Period lasted for about 56.3 million years between 201 and 145 million years ago.
5. The Jurassic Period started with a massive extinction event but did not end with any formal event.
6. The Jurassic Period started with the Triassic–Jurassic (Tr-J) Extinction Event.
7. The Jurassic Period ended with the start of the Cretaceous Period.
8. The Jurassic Period is divided into three different epochs.
9. The three epochs of the Jurassic Period are the Early Jurassic, Middle Jurassic, and Late Jurassic.
10. The longest epoch during the Jurassic Period was the Early Jurassic.
11. The shortest epoch during the Jurassic Period was the Middle Jurassic.
12. French geologist and mineralogist Alexandre Brongniart came up with the name Jurassic in an 1829 published book.
13. During the Jurassic Period a warm and wet climate allowed an abundance of life and vegetation to evolve.
14. Giant sauropod herbivorous dinosaurs, like the Apatosaurus and the Diplodocus roamed the Earth during the Jurassic Period.
15. There was a huge abundance of vegetation during the Jurassic Period, but it looked nothing like today’s vegetation, there were not palm or flowering plants.
16. Many well-known and popular dinosaurs lived during the Jurassic Period, like the stegosaurus and the Brachiosaurus.
17. A few dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic Period are the Allosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Marshosaurus, Stegosaurus, and the Torvosaurus.
18. When people hear the word Jurassic, they think of the book and film franchise Jurassic Park. As always with fictional stories, many dinosaurs used in those movies never lived during the Jurassic Period.

Jurassic Period Pictures

There is a saying that claims a picture is worth a thousand words. If that is true then the below images will help you with your research on the Jurassic Period. Below you will find three pictures of dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic Period. These pictures should give you a bettering understanding of what dinosaurs lived during this geological period.

A picture of a Stegosaurus from the Early Jurassic Period.

A picture of a Brachiosaurus from the Middle Jurassic Period.

A picture of a Brachiosaurus from the Middle Jurassic Period.