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

Aggiosaurus nicaensis

Algoasaurus bauri

Allosaurus

Allosaurus europaeus

Allosaurus ferox

Allosaurus fragilis

Allosaurus lucaris

Allosaurus tendagurensis ?

Amphicoelias

Amphicoelias altus

Amphicoelias fragillimus

Amphicoelias latus

Anthodon serrarius (2)

Antrodemus trihedrodon

Antrodemus valens

Apatodon mirus

Apatosaurus

Apatosaurus ajax

Apatosaurus alenquerensis

Apatosaurus excelsus

Apatosaurus grandis

Apatosaurus laticollis

Apatosaurus louisae

Apatosaurus minimus?

Apatosaurus montanus

Apatosaurus yahnahpin

Archaeopteryx bavarica ~/~

Archaeopteryx lithographica ~/~

Arcusaurus pereirabdalorum

Astrodon pusillus

Atlantosaurus

Atlantosaurus immanis

Atlantosaurus laticollis

Atlantosaurus minimus

Atlantosaurus montanus

Australodocus bohetii

Aviatyrannis jurassica

 

B   

 

Barosaurus

Barosaurus affinis

Barosaurus africanus

Barosaurus gracilis

Barosaurus lentus

Beelemodon

Bellusaurus sui

Bothriospondylus

Bothriospondylus suffosus

Brachiosaurus

Brachiosaurus altithorax

Brachiosaurus atalaiensis

Brachiosaurus brancai

Brachiosaurus (Giraffatitan) brancai

Brachiosaurus fraasi

Brachyrophus altarkansanus

Brachytrachelopan mesai

Brohisaurus kirthari

Brontoraptor

Brontosaurus

Brontosaurus ajax

Brontosaurus amplus

Brontosaurus excelsus

Brontosaurus montanus

 

C   

 

Camarasaurus

Camarasaurus alenquerensis

Camarasaurus annae

Camarasaurus grandis

Camarasaurus lentus

Camarasaurus leptodirus

Camarasaurus lewisi

Camarasaurus supremus

Camptonotus amplus

Camptonotus dispar

Camptosaurus

Camptosaurus amplus

Camptosaurus aphanoecetes

Camptosaurus depressus

Camptosaurus dispar

Camptosaurus medius

Camptosaurus nanus

Camptosaurus prestwichii

Cathetosaurus lewisi

Caudocoelus sauvagei

Caulodon diversidens

Caulodon leptoganus

Ceratosaurus

Ceratosaurus dentisulcatus

Ceratosaurus ingens

Ceratosaurus magnicornis

Ceratosaurus nasicornis

Ceratosaurus roechlingi

Ceratosaurus sp.

Ceratosaurus willisobrienorum

Cetiosauriscus

Cetiosauriscus greppeni

Cetiosaurus

Cetiosaurus humerocristatus

Cetiosaurus oxoniensis

Chaoyangsaurus youngi

Chialingosaurus guangyuanensis

Chialingosaurus kuani

Chiayusaurus lacustris

Chienkosaurus ceratosauroides (2)

Chungkingosaurus jiangbeiensis

Coelurus

Coelurus agilis

Coelurus fragils

Compsognathus

Compsognathus corallestris

Compsognathus longipes

Confuciusornis sanctus ~/~

Cryptodraco

Cryptosaurus eumerus

Cumnoria

 

D   

 

Daanosaurus zhangi

Dacentrurus

Dacentrurus armatus

Dicraeosaurus hansemanni

Dicraeosaurus sattleri

Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis

Diplodocus

Diplodocus carnegii

Diplodocus hayi

Diplodocus lacustris

Diplodocus longus

Diracodon laticeps

Doryphorosaurus

Draconyx loureiroi

Dracopelta zbyszewskii

Drinker nisti

Dryosaurus

Dryosaurus altus

Dryosaurus lettowvorbecki

Duriatitan humerocristatus

Dysalotosaurus lettow-vorbecki

Dyslocosaurus polyonychius

Dystrophaeus viaemalae

Dystylosaurus edwini

 

E   

 

Echinodon becklessi

Edmarka rex

Elaphrosaurus bambergi

Elaphrosaurus sp (1)

Elosaurus parvus

Eobrontosaurus

Epanterias amplexus

Epidendrosaurus ningchengensis ~/~

Eugongbusaurus wucaiwanensis

Euhelopus zdanskyi

Europasaurus holgeri

 

F   

 

Fruitadens haagarorum

 

G   

 

Galveosaurus herreroi

Gargoyleosaurus parkpini

Gigantosaurus

Gigantosaurus africanus

Gigantosaurus megalonyx

Gigantosaurus robusta

Gigantspinosaurus sichuanensis

Giraffatitan

Gongbusaurus shiyii

Gongbusaurus wucaiwanensis

Guanlong wucaii

 

H   

 

Haplocanthosaurus delfsi

Haplocanthosaurus priscus

Haplocanthosaurus utterbacki

Haplocanthus priscus

Haplocheirus sollers

Hesperosaurus mjosi

Hudiesaurus sinojapanorum

Hypsirhophus discurus (1)

Hypsirhophus discurus (2)

Hypsirhophus seeleyanus

 

I   

 

Iguanodon phillipsii

Iguanodon praecursor

Iguanodon prestwichii

Ischyrosaurus

Ischyrosaurus manseli

 

J   

 

Janenschia

Janenschia robusta

Jiangjunmiaosaurus

Jiangjunosaurus junggarensis  

Juravenator starki

 

K   

 

Kaatedocus siberi

Kentrosaurus aethiopicus

Kentrurosaurus

Koparion douglassi

 

L   

 

Labrosaurus

Labrosaurus ferox

Labrosaurus stechowi

Labrosaurus sulcatus

Laelaps gallicus

Laelaps trihedrodon

Laosaurus altus

Laosaurus celer

Laosaurus consors

Laosaurus gracilis

Leshansaurus qianweiensis

Lexovisaurus

Lexovisaurus durobrivensis

Limusaurus inextricabilis

Lisboasaurus estesi

Losillasaurus giganteus

Lourinhanosaurus antunesi

Lourinhasaurus alenquerensis

Luanpingosaurus jingshanensis

Lusotitan atalaiensis

 

M   

 

Macrodontophion

Madsenius

Mamenchisaurus

Mamenchisaurus anyuensis

Mamenchisaurus constructus

Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis

Mamenchisaurus jingyanensis

Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum

Mamenchisaurus youngi

Marshosaurus bicentesimus

Megalosaurus

Megalosaurus bucklandii

Megalosaurus ingens (1)

Megalosaurus ingens (2)

Megalosaurus insignis

Megalosaurus meriani

Megalosaurus parkeri

Megalosaurus phillipsi

Megalosaurus pombali

Metriacanthosaurus parkeri

Miragaia longicollum

Morinosaurus typus

Morosaurus agilis

Morosaurus lentus

Morosaurus robustus

Mymoorapelta maysi

 

N   

 

Nanosaurus agilis

Nanosaurus rex

Neosodon

NN (7) Bothriospondylus?

 

O   

 

Omeisaurus

Omeisaurus changshouensis

Omeisaurus fuxiensis

Omeisaurus maoianus

Omosaurus armatus

Omosaurus hastiger

Omosaurus lennieri

Omosaurus phillipsi

Oplosaurus armatus ?

Ornitholestes hermanni

Ornithopsis greppini

Ornithopsis leedsi

Ornithopsis manseli

Ostafrikasaurus crassiserratus

Othnielia rex

Othnielosaurus consors

Otogornis genghisi ~/~

 

P   

 

Palaeopteryx thomsoni

Palaeoscincus africanus

Paranthodon

Paranthodon africanus

Paranthodon owenii

Pedopenna daohugouensis

Pelorosaurus humerocristatus

Pelorosaurus sp. (1)

Pelorosaurus sp. (2)

Pelorosaurus sp. (3)

Pelorosaurus sp. (4)

Phyllodon henkeli

Planicoxa depressus

Planicoxa venenica

Plateosaurus ornatus

Pleurocoelus montanus

Poekilopleuron valens

Praeornis sharovi ~/~

Priodontognathus phillipsii

 

S   

 

Saurophaganax maximus

Saurophagus maximus ?

Sciurumimus albersdoerferi

Seismosaurus halli

Sinocoelurus fragilis

Sinraptor dongi

Sinraptor hepingensis

Stegosaurus

Stegosaurus affinis

Stegosaurus armatus

Stegosaurus duplex

Stegosaurus longispinus

Stegosaurus stenops

Stegosaurus sulcatus

Stegosaurus ungulatus

Stokesosaurus clevelandi

Streptospondylus cuvieri

Supersaurus vivianae

Suuwassea emilieae

Symphyrophus musculosus

Szechuanosaurus campi

Szechuanosaurus yandonensis

 

T   

 

Tanycolagreus topwilsoni

Tehuelchesaurus benitezii

Teinurosaurus sauvagei

Tendaguria tanzaniensis

Tichosteus aequifacies

Tichosteus lucasanus

Tienshanosaurus chitaiensis

Titanosaurus montanus

Torvosaurus tanneri

Trimucrodon cuneatus

Tuojiangosaurus multispinus

Turiasaurus riodevensis

 

U   

 

Uintasaurus douglassi

Ultrasauros macintoshi

Uteodon aphanoecetes

 

V   

 

Veterupristisaurus milneri

 

W   

 

Wellnhoferia grandis ~/~

Wyomingraptor

 

X   

 

Xiaotingia zhengi

Xuanhuaceratops niei

Xuanhuasaurus niei

 

Y   

 

Yangchuanosaurus hepingensis

Yangchuanosaurus magnus

Yangchuanosaurus shangyouensis

Yingshanosaurus jichuanensis

Yinlong downsi

Yunnanosaurus youngi

 

Z   

 

Zuolong salleei