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
Rainbow Basin of its rock formations: its fossil beds, which have provided scientists with valuable information about life during the middle Miocene epoch, between 12 and 16 million years ago; and to the northeast the Calico Early Man Site. Underneath Rainbow Basin is the massive batholith that lies below much of the western Mojave (Dibblee 1968:15). Made from a type of rock called quartz monzonite, this batholith dates to either the Cretaceous, or possibly the late Jurassic period (Dibblee 1967:43). Early in the Cenozoic Era this batholith was exposed in the area surrounding Rainbow Basin and bent downward as it underwent compression,