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Triassic Period (LATE)

Tr3 Epoch

Rhaetian Age (206 to 210 Million Years Ago)
Norian Age (210 to 221 Million Years Ago)
Carnian Age (221 to 227 Million Years Ago)

Triassic Period (MIDDLE)

Tr2 Epoch

Ladinian Age (227 to 234 Million Years Ago)
Anisian Age (234 to 242 Million Years Ago)

Triassic Period (EARLY)

Scythian Epoch

Olenekian Age (242 to 245 Million Years Ago)
Induan Age (245 to 248 Million Years Ago)

PALEOZOIC ERA (248-570 Million Years Ago)




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Chapter 1
Predation Event
Washington, D.C.: Cenozoic era. Quaternary period. Holocene epoch. Modern Age. 2010 C.E.

If the whole tangled affair could be said to have a beginning at all, it began on that cold, blustery
afternoon in late October when the man with the Igloo cooler walked into Richard Leyster's office. His
handshake was firm, and he set the cooler casually down on a tabletop between a lime-green inflatable


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tyrannosaur and a tray of unsorted hadrosaur teeth without asking permission first. His smile was utterly
without warmth. He said his name was Griffin and that he had come to offer Leyster a new position.
Leyster laughed and, sitting back on the edge of his desk, put down the man's card without looking at
it. "You could hardly have chosen a worse time to make the offer."
"Oh?" Griffin shifted a stack of AutoCAD boxes from a chair to the floor. His suit was expensive; he