Lothranic

The Lothranic Period was a geologic period lasting between 202 and 183 million years ago. Following the mass extinction at the end of the Quintassic, the Lothranic period saw a period of adaptive radiation among many different forms of dinosaurs and other reptiles. The first crown-group frogs, salamanders, lizards, turtles, and sirens hail from this period, and derived ancestors of crocodiles and mammals are known.

The Lothranic period saw a period of slowly cooling climate change, potentially ending with an ice age though geologists debate this heavily. It is thought that this cold period may have driven the evolution of crown-group mammals and flight feathers in the dinosaur line that would become birds in the Dracian period.

The period is named after the Lothranis Sea in southwestern Syltor. The Ardol Formation preserves a large number of marine fossils from this time, as well as a regressive sequence of rock implicating a falling sea level- evidence of global cooling.