Ere Cenozoique Periode Tertiaire

Ere Cenozoique Periode Tertiaire is a book in the cartoon portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Take a look! It's in a book!

Ere Cenozoique Periode Tertiaire (French, literally "Cenozoic Era Tertiary Period") is a book on dinosaurs.

Fiction

After Spike Witwicky had a harrowing experience with living dinosaurs on Dinobot Island, he decided that reading about them was safer. To that end, he went to the local library with Bumblebee, where he borrowed Ere Cenozoique Periode Tertiaire, a book by Gideon Mantel, and a third, unknown book (which was presumably also dinosaur-related).

However, once on the street, Spike and Bumblebee were assaulted by time-travelling barbarians riding woolly mammoths and buried alive under the rubble of a building. Dinobot Island, Part 1

Lesson: never go to the library.

When the Autobots later rescued the pair, the books were nowhere to be seen. Hopefully, Spike's dad was able to cover any lost book fees. Dinobot Island, Part 2

Trivia

• The title Ere Cenozoique Periode Tertiare appears to be derived from Ere Cénozoïque (Tertiaire et Quaternaire), a book by French geologist Charles Pomerol. Dinobot Island writer Don Glut is a massive, massive Palaeontology geek. This also explains the book by Gideon Mantell.
• Hypothetically, Spike may have had some knowledge of French in order to read the book. Then again, maybe he just wanted to look at the pretty pictures.
  
  
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