Jurassic Early
The Jurassic period named from rocks formed at this time in the Jura Mountains of France and Switzerland marked the middle of the Mesozoic era.
Pangaea started to cracking up, although rifting began in the Triassic, a significant breakup of Pangaea was not evident until the Middle Jurassic when rifts in the continental crust produced the Atlantic Ocean en Africa began to split from South America while India prepared to drifts towards Asia.
The Gondwanan continents (South America, Africa, Australia, India and Antarctica) remained more or less fused during the Jurassic.
The earth\\\'s climate was generally warm and moist in the Jurassic and rains watered what has been Triassic deserts.
In the Late Jurassic Laurasia was somewhat fragmented, inasmuch as much as Europe was an archipelago.
This archipelago however seems to have offered stepping stones allowing limited faunal exchange between Afica and North America.
A
Aardonyx celestae
Abrictosaurus consors
Adeopapposaurus mognai
Aetonyx palustris
Ammosaurus major
Amphisaurus
Amygdalodon patagonicus
Anchisaurus
Anchisaurus capensis
Anchisaurus colurus
Anchisaurus major
Anchisaurus polyzelus
Anchisaurus solus
Aristosaurus erectus
B
Barapasaurus tagorei
Berberosaurus liassicus
Bienosaurus lufengensis
C
Camarasaurus
Chinshakiangosaurus
Chuxiongosaurus lufengensis
Cryolophosaurus ellitio
D
Dandakosaurus indicus
Dianchungosaurus lufengensis
Dilophosaurus
Dilophosaurus breedorum
Dilophosaurus sinensis
Dilophosaurus wetherilli
Dracovenator regenti
E
Elvisaurus
Emausaurus ernsti
Eshanosaurus deguchiianus
F
Fabrosaurus australis
Fulengia youngi
G
Geranosaurus atavus
Glacialisaurus hammeri
Gryponyx
Gryponyx africanus
Gryponyx taylori
Gyposaurus
Gyposaurus capensis
Gyposaurus sinensis
H
Heterodontosaurus tucki
Hortalotarsus skirtopodus
I
Ignavusaurus rachelis
J
Jingshanosaurus xinwaensis
K
Kayentavenator elysiae
Kotasaurus yamanpalliensis
Kunmingosaurus wudingensis
L
Lanasaurus scalpridens
Leonerasaurus taquetrensis
Leptospondylus capensis
Lesothosaurus diagnosticus
Leyesaurus marayensis
Lufengocephalus tawae
Lufengosaurus hunei
Lufengosaurus magnus
Lukousaurus yini
Lusitanosaurus liasicus
Lycorhinus angustidens
Lycorhinus consors
M
Magnosaurus
Magnosaurus lydekkeri
Massospondylus
Massospondylus browni
Massospondylus carinatus
Massospondylus harriesi
Massospondylus kaalae
Massospondylus schwarzi
Massospondylussp,
Megadactylus polyzelus
Megalosaurus cloacinus
Megalosaurus lydekkeri
Megalosaurus terquemi
Megalosaurus wetherilli
Megapnosaurus
Megapnosaurus kayentakatae
Megapnosaurus rhodesiensis
cf. Megapnosaurus sp.
Melanorosaurus
Melanorosaurus thabanensis
Merosaurus newmani
Morosaurus
Morosaurus impar
N
NN (-6-) Ornithischia
NN (-8-) ’Juvenile’ Scelidosaurus
O
Ohmdenosaurus liasicus
Oshanosaurus
P
Pachyspondylus orpenii
Pantydraco caducus
Pegomastax africana
Plateosaurus ornatus
Podokesaurus holykensis
S
Saltriosaurus
Sarahsaurus aurifontanalis
Sarcosaurus andrewsi
Sarcosaurus woodi
Scelidosaurus harrisonii
Scutellosaurus lawleri
Segisaurus halli
Seitaad ruessi
Shunosaurus ziliujingensis
Sinosaurus triassicus
Stormbergia dangershoeki
Syntarsus
Syntarsus kayentakatae
Syntarsus rhodesiensis
T
Tatisaurus oehleri
Tawasaurus minor
Tazoudasaurus naimi
Thecodontosaurus browni
Thecodontosaurus caducus
Thecodontosaurus dubius
Thecodontosaurus minor
Thecodontosaurus skirtopodus
Tonganosaurus hei
V
Vulcanodon karibaensis
X
Xixiposaurus suni
Y
Yaleosaurus colurus
Yibinosaurus zhoui
Yimenosaurus youngi
Yizhousaurus sunae
Yunnanosaurus huangi
Yunnanosaurus robustus
Z
Zizhongosaurus chuanchengensis
Zizhongosaurus huangshibanensis