The Magic School Bus In the Time of the Dinosaurs software adaptation (The Magic School Bus Explores in the Age of Dinosaurs), unlike the book (The Magic School Bus In the Time of the Dinosaurs) and the TV episode (The Busasaurus) adapted from the book version, the Bus however transforms into three different prehistoric animals (one for each of the time periods) instead of a time machine. It transforms into three different prehistoric animals; a Coelophysis (for the Triassic Period), Stegosaurus (for the Jurassic Period), and Pteranodon (for the Cretaceous Period). This game has very elaborate CGI forms for the bus. Although the classroom location song has changed in the
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument originated during the late Jurassic and early Cretaceous, about 118 to 93 million years ago. Northeastern Oregon was assembled in large blocks (exotic terranes) of Permian, Triassic, and Jurassic rock shifted by tectonic forces and accreted to what was then the western edge of the North American continent, near the Idaho border. By the beginning of the Cenozoic era, 66 million years ago, the Blue Mountains province was uplifting (that is, was being pushed higher by tectonic forces), and the Pacific Ocean shoreline, formerly near Idaho, had shifted to the west. Volcanic eruptions about 44 million years ago during the