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How did the cretaceous era end?

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11y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

The Cretaceous era ended with a mass extinction that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, ammonites, and many other species. It was probably caused by a combination of climate change from excess volcanism in India and a huge asteroid impact.

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