Cretaceous in a sentence

Although several lineages became extinct during the faunal turnover at the end of the Cretaceous, multituberculates as a whole managed very successfully to cross the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary and reached their peak of diversity during the Paleocene.

By the end of the Cretaceous, angiosperms dominated tree floras in many areas, although some evidence suggests that biomass was still dominated by cycad and ferns until after the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction.

Non- avian dinosaurs died out in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period.

The jewel beetles' diversity increased rapidly during the Cretaceous, as they were the primary consumers of wood, citation while longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae) were rather rare, and their diversity increased only towards the end of the Upper Cretaceous.

The stegosaurians appear to have gone extinct at some point in the late early Cretaceous or early late Cretaceous.

Towards the Late Cretaceous large volcanic eruptions are also believed to have contributed to the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.

Dating to the Cretaceous Period, it shows the four-legged mammal Repenomamus robustus - the size of a domestic cat - ferociously entangled with the beaked two-legged dinosaur Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis - as big as a medium-sized dog.

First, Grande Prairie is about 4.5 degrees north of Dinosaur Provincial Park now, and in the Late Cretaceous the difference in latitude would have been similar.

Friis has come to believe, however, that the disappearance of the dinosaurs was not even the most interesting development of the Cretaceous period.

The elasmosaur is a large marine reptile that lived along the coast of B.C. This prehistoric animal dates back to the Cretaceous period, approximately 80 million years ago.

These building stones were quarried from fossiliferous rock layers dated to the Jurassic or Cretaceous periods when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth.

The Thalattosuchian group lived until the Early Cretaceous period, about 130 million years ago.

They are one of the oldest fish in the world, with origins dating back to the Early Cretaceous over 100 million years ago.

Those are the certainties of the Cretaceous Period exchange that were encased in time until this week, when a team of paleontologists revealed the stunning fossil in a paper in Scientific Reports.

Geologists designate this very thin layer as the K-Pg layer, which describes the time when the Cretaceous period ends and the Paleogene period begins.

In the northern parts of the concession, the Segovia Batholith is covered by a strongly tectonized volcano-sedimentary succession of Cretaceous age, with nature of contact largely undefined.

Taking place six years after the events of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, the show follows "The Nublar Six" as they uncover a conspiracy that harms the livelihoods of both dinosaurs and humans.

These insects, which resembled moths with shrunken heads, originated during the middle Triassic Period and persisted for around 160 million years into the Cretaceous Period.

The 'tilt' of the rocks creates a unique 'walk through time' from 250 million to 65 million years ago, through the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods as you walk eastwards along the site.

Travel back in time and uncover a realm of and ice age creatures in an interactive installation of life-sized animatronic beasts from the Jurassic, Triassic, Cretaceous and Ice Age periods.