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Triassic Period
Distribution of landmasses, mountainous regions, shallow seas, and deep ocean basins during the early Triassic Period. Included in the paleogeographic reconstruction are the locations of the interval's subduction zones.
During the Late Triassic Period, the dinosaur Plateosaurus was among the earliest dinosaurs to reach a relatively large size, growing to approximately 8 meters (26 feet) in length. As a representative of the prosauropods, it was significantly more massive than many earlier, smaller dinosaurs and possessed thick, stocky bones.12