Editing Prehistory (section)

===Triassic Period===
*'''252 to 201 million years ago'''
Aka when [[Dinosaur]]s show up. Not that it was the only thing that happened. After the Great Dying a few species left standing filled the empty niches, and in praticular one species of vaguely pig synapsid called Lystrosaurus swarmed across Pangaea and made up to 95% of all terrestrial vertebrate life by mass and it took some time for biodiversity to really spring back. The Triassic was on the whole a hot and fairly dry time and a wide range of new Reptiles and Synapsids, with Reptiles gradually gaining the upper hand. This was also when the first vertebrates (''pterosaurs'') took to the sky, as well as reptiles returning to the sea, most notably ''Ichthyosaurs''. Dinosaurs were at this point just one family of reasonably successful reptiles. Our ancestors at the time were ''Cynodonts'', which would eventually give rise to Mammals.

Ends with the End Triassic Extinction event, pretty much a less extreme version of the Great Dying as Pangaea began to come apart.