cretaceous period in English

noun

geologic timescale from 135 million to 63 million years ago; end of the age of reptiles; appearance of modern insects and flowering plants

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1. Albian is a stage of the Cretaceous period

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Also in Geumseong-myeon are a set of more than 300 dinosaur tracks from the early Cretaceous period.

11. During the Cretaceous period, a few species of primitive ants ranged widely on the Laurasian supercontinent (the Northern Hemisphere).

12. Some recent dating studies suggested that Brachiosaurus survived till 140 million years ago (the start of the Cretaceous period)

13. The formation of the limestone rock has been dated to the Upper Cretaceous period, 135–65 million years BP.

14. Alioramus (/ˌælioʊˈreɪməs/; meaning 'different branch') is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous period of Asia.

15. Belemnites became extinct about the same time that the Dinosaurs disappeared at the end of the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago

16. Noun any of several herbivorous dinosaurs of the suborder Ankylosauria, from the Cretaceous Period, having the body covered with thick, bony plates.

17. Oviraptorosaurs ("egg thief lizards") are a group of feathered maniraptoran dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period of what are now Asia and North America.

18. Brontosaurus is a large sauropod dinosaur that lived between late Jurassic to early Cretaceous period of 163.5 million to 100.5 million years ago

19. Ichthyornis (meaning "fish bird", after its fish-like vertebrae) was a genus of toothed seabird-like ornithuran from the late Cretaceous period of North America.

20. Zuniceratops ('Zuni-horned face') was a ceratopsian dinosaur from the mid Turonian of the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now New Mexico, United States.

21. Avaceratops is a genus of small herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaurs which lived during the late Campanian during the Late Cretaceous Period in what are now the Northwest United States.

22. Ankylosaurus is a genus belonging to a larger group (infraorder Ankylosauria) of related four-legged heavily armoured herbivorous dinosaurs that flourished throughout the Cretaceous Period (145.5 million to 66 million years ago).

23. This species, which could grow up to 3.4 metres (11 ft) long, lived during the early Cretaceous Period, about 115–108 million years ago (from the mid-Aptian to early Albian stages).

24. 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

25. The holotype specimen is MCT 1622-R, a skull and partial lower jaw, found in the Crato Formation, dating to the boundary of the Aptian-Albian stages of the early Cretaceous period, about 112 Ma ago.

26. Ankylosaurs and the Nodosaurs, their cousins, are the familiar armored dinosaurs from the late Cretaceous period. They were covered with osteoderms or boney plates of protective armor, and the Ankylosaurs had a clubbed tail for added defense

27. Dromaeosaurus (/ˌdroʊmiəˈsɔːrəs, -mioʊ-/, "swift running lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous period (middle late Campanian), sometime between 76.5 and 74.8 million years ago, in the western United States and Alberta, Canada.