cretaceous in English

adjective
1
of, relating to, or denoting the last period of the Mesozoic era, between the Jurassic and Tertiary periods.
As such, they have been found fossilized in Jurassic and Cretaceous deposits, and have been used to reconstruct paleoclimates.
noun

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1. Lower Cretaceous (Tithonian till Albian).

2. Unusual death of a Cretaceous giant.

3. Ankylosaurus was a late Cretaceous Ankylosaur

4. Genus Ankylosaurus - armored herbivorous dinosaurs of the Cretaceous.

5. Albian is a stage of the Cretaceous period

6. Sil Argonautid egg cases to Upper Cretaceous ammonites (Fig

7. A profound unconformity separates the Eocene from the Upper Cretaceous.

8. In other areas gas generation occurred during Cretaceous/Tertiary burial.

9. Mineral, palaeontology, middle devonian, permian to early jurassic, and cretaceous.

10. Near the end of the Cretaceous Period, flowering plants diversified.

11. MimArachnidae is an extinct family of planthoppers known from the Cretaceous period

12. Xihu depression is a cretaceous - tertiary basin undergoing multi - episodic tectonism.

13. CRETACEOUS Benthonic FORAMINIFERA, LEG 20, DEEP SEA DRILLING PROJECT Valeri A

14. The Albian stage of the Cretaceous; the strata dating from this stage

15. So when it comes down to our end Cretaceous, we have seven left.

16. Basic intrusions provoked high-T Aureoles near Cretaceous rocks in NE Brazil

17. More than 80% of Cretaceous turtle species passed through the K–Pg boundary.

18. In dinosaur: Ankylosauria The Ankylosaurs are known from the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous periods

19. Aletopelta coombsi Ankylosaur Order: Ankylosauria (includes both Ankylosauridae and Nodosauridae) Time Cretaceous Period

20. Angiosperms evolved during the late Cretaceous Period, about 125-100 million years ago

21. Baryonyx is a genus of spinosaurid from the Barremian stage of the Cretaceous

22. Booger the Dinosaur was conceived about 66 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period

23. A distant relation of Halorella, called Peregrinella, is even more remarkable in early Cretaceous rocks.

24. The occurrence of fuller's earth in Cretaceous strata from Wiltshire to Yorkshire has been studied.

25. Plural Brachiosauri or Brachiosaurs A massive sauropod dinosaur of the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods

26. Albian Stage, uppermost of six main divisions of the Lower Cretaceous Series, representing rocks deposited worldwide during the Albian Age, which occurred between 113 million and 100.5 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period

27. Is one of several intrusions related to the Boulder Bathylith of Late Cretaceous age

28. These lavas are part of the Albian (late Early Cretaceous) age Strand Fiord Formation.

29. They are overlain unconformably by deposits of the transgressive Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian—Turonian) sea.

30. "Thermochronology of Cretaceous Batholithic rocks in the northern Peninsular Ranges batholith, southern California: Implications for the Late Cretaceous tectonic evolution of southern California", Peninsular Ranges Batholith, Baja California and Southern California, Douglas M

31. They consist of auriferous, sheeted quartz veins that cut six Cretaceous stocks and their hornfels.

32. Trichomyia lengleti is a species of Cretaceous flies found in the Charentes region of France.

33. Brachiopod Name - Rhynchonella grasiana Location - Midlet, Morocco Late Cretaceous - about 88 million years ago MotherEarthRocksShop

34. Throughout the last third of the Cretaceous the dinosaurs slowly declined in diversity and numbers.

35. Cretaceous sediments are cut off by the major erosive unconformity of the so-called “siderolithic” emersion phase.

36. With the demise of marine reptiles at the end of the Cretaceous, sharks became the top predators.

37. Ankylosaur armored dinosaur, suborder of the Ornithi-schia order of dinosaurs, characteristic of the Cretaceous period

38. A large Ankylosaurian dinosaur of the genus Ankylosaurus of the Cretaceous Period, having a clubbed tail.

39. 52 Upper Cretaceous ‘Banatite’-related ore deposits, as well as metallogenesis associated with Neogene 53 volcanism

40. The discontinous zoning is due to a two stage metamorphism of possibly Cretaceous to Tertiary age.

41. Belemnites were a key group in the Jurassic and Cretaceous seas as both predators and prey

42. Belemnites During the Cretaceous period in Australia, the shallow Eromanga Sea covered a third of the continent

43. Typical Ankylosaur skull showing some of the major features (Tarchia gigantea from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia)

44. The true "Age of Dinosaurs" is during the following Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, rather than the Triassic.

45. The land is largely made up of Tertiary molasse, Cretaceous limestone and limestone clay, and alluvial terraces

46. The land is largely made up of tertiary molasse, cretaceous limestone and limestone clay, and alluvial terraces.

47. In Middle Albian the Estella Basin subsides rapidly, creating marine conditions through Upper Cretaceous and Eocene time.

48. Species resembling this one in general shape are met with in rocks of Cretaceous and younger age.

49. It also caps many of the Jura box-folds, where the Cretaceous succession has been eroded away.

50. Jackson, Alan: "Effects of diliptic septaniloxymonochloristalpolypeptide on the Anaxial fracture tendencies of Early Cretaceous shard fragments