Time Periods Explored

This is a list of time periods explored in various documentaries. =Phanerozoic Aeon(545 MYA - Present)=

Holocene Epoch and Age (12,000 YA - Present)

 * 10,000 YA, Siberia - Explored in Prehistoric Park Episode 2: A Mammoth Undertaking - Nigel rescues some Woolly Mammoths who are about to go extinct, from Cro-Magnan Man.
 * 10,000 YA, South America - Explored in Prehistoric Park Episode 4: Saving the Sabretooth - Nigel returns to a dryer South America to rescue the a sabre tooth tiger as it was in decline, presumably due to the lack of large prey from which they could feed. One tries to catch a deer, but is not fast enough.  He also comes across a modern armadillo.

Pleistocene Epoch (2.588 MYA - 12,000 YA)

 * 20,000 YA (Last Glacial Maximum)

Ionian (Middle) Age (781 - 126 TYA)

 * 150,000 YA, Siberia - Explored in Prehistoric Park Episode 2: A Mammoth Undertaking - Nigel returns to Siberia, but this time during the height of the ice age when Mammoth's were thriving.

Calabrian Age (Early Pleistocene) (1.806-0.781 MYA)

 * 1 MYA, South America - Explored in Prehistoric Park Episode 4: Saving the Sabretooth - Nigel travels back to South America to get a Phorusrhacos (Terror Bird), which was being out competed by Saber Tooth tigers after they crossed over from North America. He encounters a herd of hippo-like Toxodon, which were the prey for the sabertooths.

Maastrichtian Age (65.5 – 70.6 MYA)

 * 65 MYA, Montana - Explored in Prehistoric Park Episode 1: T. rex Returns, where Nigel enters in order to obtain a Tyrannosaurus rex. He also brings back a Triceratops and Ornithomimus for the park.  Some Nyctosaurus (or pterasaurs) are also seen.  The end of the episode is when the asteroid strikes the earth and wipes out the dinosaurs.

Campanian Age (83.5 - 70.6 MYA)

 * 75 MYA, Mongolia - Explored in Chased by Dinosaurs Episode 2: The Giant Claw - Nigel sets out to investigate a dinosaur with a very large set of claws, the Therizinosaurus. He runs across the nesting grounds of the Protoceratops.  He finds a forest filled with Velociraptors.  He finds a hungry Tarbosaurus carnivore.  He notes that the Mononykus theropods do have feathers.  He also finds duck billed Saurolophus and the pteradon Azhdarcho.
 * 75 MYA, Texas - Explored in Prehistoric Park Episode 6: Supercroc - Nigel sets out to the inland shores of Texas to find the largest croc that ever lived, the Deinosuchus. He first finds several Parasaurolophus running from Albertasaurus.  One later goes to get a drink at shore and is eaten by Deinosuchus.  He also observes a pteradon Nyctosaurus catching fish, but is then caught by a Deinosuchus.  A Troodon stows away in the jeep and arrives at the park, causing quite a disastrous chain of events.

Albian Age (112.0 - 99.6 MYA)

 * 100 MYA, Argentina - Explored in Chased by Dinosaurs Episode 1: Land of Giants - Nigel goes back to prehistoric Argentina to see where the giant Argentinosaurus nest every year. He is attacked by a Sarcosuchus "super-croc".  He finds a herd of duck-billed Iguanodon.  He also finds a group of Pteranodon hunting fish.  He flies with Ornithocheirus, one of the largest flying animal.  He also encounters a Giganotosaurus eating an Iguanodon.

Aptian Age (112.0–125.0 MYA)

 * 120 MYA, Northeast China - (Microraptor were actually found from this era)

Barremian Age (130.0-125.0 MYA)]

 * 125 MYA, Northeast China - Explored in Prehistoric Park Episode 3: Dinobirds - Nigel travels back to obtain a Microraptor (which really existed later) and other wildlife about to be threatened by a volcano. Eosipterus pterosaurs are witnessed skimming for fish.  A group of Mei long dinosaurs steel their food.  A bird-like herbivore Incisivosaurus woos a female after chasing off a rival male and mistaking Nigel for one.  Nigel is unexpectedly able to capture a herd of Titanosaurs as they escape a volcanic eruption.

Ladinian Age (237 - 228 MYA)

 * 230 MYA, shores of Switzerland - Explored in Sea Monsters Episode The Sixth Most Deadly Sea of All Time - Nigel comes to see the dangerous Nothosaurus and Cymbospondylus sea lizards. He also points out reptiles are taking over the air (Peteinosaurus, pterosaur) and the land Coelophysid Thoropod dinosaur.  He tries to catch a Tanystropheus by the tail, but it breaks off.

Pennsylvanian Epoch (318.1 - 299 MYA)

 * 300 MYA, Scotland - Explored in Prehistoric Park Episode 5: The Bug House - Nigel goes back to capture a giant centipede, a Arthropleura. He also captures giant dragonflies, Meganeura.  He captures and prevents a giant scorpion, Pulmonoscorpius from attacking a crewman while asleep.  Nigel is also bitten in the water by a large fish-like amphibian, the Crassigyrinus.

Ordovician Period (488.3 - 443.7 MYA)

 * 450 MYA, Ordovician Seas - Explored in Sea Monsters Episode 1 The 7th Most Dangerous Sea of All Time - Nigel travels back to where the day is only 20 hours long and the air is filled with more CO2 than normal, which requires a mask. Hazards he came to observe include the Cameroceras (a giant Orthocones) and a Megalograptus (giant sea scorpion).  He uses a Astraspis (armor plated fish) as bait.  He uses a Isotelus trilobite as bait for the orthocone.