Triassic Turtle

Dinosaur train
1st Season, Episode 45th
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Synopsis

Don mistakes a shell for a rock and meets Adam Adocus, a turtle with a head he can retract into his shell for self-defense. The Pteranodon family travels to the Triassic and meets Pauline Proganochelys, another kind of turtle who shares her own methods of defending herself.

Characters

Main Characters

• Buddy
• Tiny
• Don
• Shiny
• Pauline
• Mr. Pteranodon
• Mrs. Pteranodon

Second Characters

• Mr. Conductor
• Adam
• Proganochelys

Minor Characters

• Triceratops
• Laura
• Corythosaurus
• Brachiosaurus

Background

Locations

• North America
• Pteranodon Terrance
• The Big Pond
• Pangaea
• Proganochelys Place Station

Time

• Cretaceous Period
• Triassic Period

Educational Objective

Many groups of animals we are familiar with today, including turtles, lived alongside the dinosaurs, but were not dinosaurs themselves.