The dinosaur exhibition at Cityplaza will showcase fossils from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods which together make up the Mesozoic era spanning 180 million years.
The Triassic period lasted from about 245 to 208 million years ago when the world was very different from today.
All of the earth's continents were joined together into one Pangaea and the central region was largely desert.
Plants were drab and grass did not exist; ferns and mosses covered the ground instead.
The earth had undergone a phase of extinction and over 90 per cent of plant and animal life had disappeared. It was not until the late Triassic period that dinosaurs such as the pterosaurs and marine reptiles began to appear
The Jurassic period followed. It lasted from 205 to 144 million years ago, and the allosaurs and brachiosaurs existed during this time.