自三叠纪起，爬行动物掌握了地球的统治权，恐龙、鱼龙和翼龙分别统治着陆地、海洋和天空。图中展示了古地中海的景象，天空中的翼龙正在寻找猎物。一条色彩鲜艳的长口鳄正在追击慌忙逃窜的鱼类，在它的右边，一条鲨鱼也尾随着一些鱼。在它们左边，一条蛇颈龙正自顾自地捕食，远处的鱼龙也来参加盛宴。 During the Jurassic the great inland seas of what is today Europe were home to a wide variety of vertebrates. In the foreground here the large marine crocodile Mystriosaurus chases a tasty-looking school of Dapedium. On the right, the large shark Hybodus is also after some fish, while overhead the pterosaur Campylognathoides skims along looking for its own prey. In the left background of the water are Plesiosaurus and the ichthyosaur Stenopterygius, large predators of the open sea.(words from amnh.org)