Quick Answer. When a solid turns into a liquid it is called fusion, more commonly referred to as melting. When a material moves from one state of matter into another it is called a phase transition. Fusion is just one of approximately different states that matter can phase through.
Before the dinosaurs, there were Triops. Fossil Triops more than 200 million years old have been discovered. By comparison, dinosaurs date back only about 60 million years...just 'youngsters' in terms of geologic time. Triops are distant relatives of trilobites. Triops means three-eyes while the name trilobite means three lobed or three segments.
This is an extinct genus of the theropod dinosaur that existed in the late Triassic period in New Mexico. It was discovered that it was related to Coleophysis bauri,a dinosaur lived close to 200 million years ago, and it was an herbivore and walked on four limbs. Dolichosaurus This is a genus of dinosaur from the Triassic period from the coelophysid and was found in Germany.