Mesozoic Era of Great Kiravia: Difference between revisions

===Jurassic (201 to 145 million years ago)===

[[File:Spinostropheus_NT.png|thumb|''[[Valekatadens]]'', middle Jurassic theoropod]]

The early Jurassic of Great Kiravia showed major diversification of dinosauromorphs as theropods, sauropodomorphs and ornithischians came to compete over the numerous evolutionary niches left open by the extinction of the non-therapsian synapsids.<ref>The therapsians at this time being limited almost entirely to {{wp|Mammaliaformes|mammaliaformes}}.</ref> The [[Testudosaurid|testudosauroids]] of Kiravia, a clade of armoured {{wp|Ornithischia|ornithischian}} dinosaurs also known from [[Sarpolevantia]] and [[Audonia]], evolved into the [[Thagomizeroid|thagomizeroids]] during the middle Jurassic, a clade that would prove itself very prolific in [[Great Kiravia]] until the {{wp|Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event|K-Pg extinction event}}. The paleobiology of Jurassic Kiravia appears to have adapted to that of the continent's biomes; small, arboreally capable theropods and ornithischians would have roamed the dense forests of southern Kiravia alongside {{wp|Mammaliaformes|mammaliaformes}}, while in the riparian belt of central Kiravia, larger herbivorous dinosaurs like ornithischians and dwarf {{wp|Sauropoda|sauropods}} would have inhabited the river deltas alongside medium-sized<ref>"Medium-sized" meaning no larger than {{convert|1|t|lb}}.</ref> theropods. The north of Jurassic Great Kiravia would have been home to the larger of the previously described sauropods and more hardy ornithischians such as [[Thagomizeroid|thagomizeroids]], notably the eponymous ''[[Thagomizersaurus]]''. These would have lived in and around the fertile valleys that surrounded the countless active volcanoes of northern Kiravia such as the [[#Volcanic_activity|Gimænbayer Plains]].

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