If you could move to a prehistoric period and place, where would you go?

[Pantheraman]

Say there was a portal that allowed you to go back in time and you decided to move to the past. When and where would you go?

I'd choose Late Pleistocene North America just so I could see the amazing animals of this time and place, and it's more familiar to modern times. Or I'd head to South America during that same time just to see a group of Smilodon Populator.

 

[JigerofLemuria]

I'm a bit torn, so I'll say two among which I'd decide with a coin toss;
- Early Jurassic (Toarcian) England, during the golden age of the ichthyosaurs and the rise of the plesiosaurs. I'd do anything to swim among those amazing marine reptiles... (in an orca-proof cage mind you)
- Late Jurassic Morrison formation, at the height of its biodiversity. Seeing so many sauropods, theropods and so many other dinosaurs interact in the same environment would be absolute bliss.

 

[DaLilFishie]

Going for a dive at the Burgess Shale sounds lovely I think, if only the Cambrian atmosphere was a bit more breathable otherwise my pick would be late Cretaceous China, no specific time/area.

 

[KevinB]

I would love to observe all the feathered bird-like theropod dinosaurs and the early evolution of birds in Late Jurassic or Cretaceous China.

Another place and time I think I would enjoy (although it would be hot and wet) would be the Eocene lake that became the Messel Pit oil shale in what is now Germany, site of a lot of early mammal and bird diversity.