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What 6 groups of organisms survived the cretaceous tertiary extinction?
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How do you use cretaceous- tertiary extinction in a sentence?
A meteorite impacted Earth and caused the cretaceous-tertiary extinction.
What did the Cretaceous - Tertiary extinction event end?
The Tertiary Era.
How does the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction relate to the age of Mammals?
The extinction of so many organisms left a large ecological niche to expand into, which mammals did.
How do you use tertiary in a a sentence?
A meteorite impacted Earth and caused the cretaceous-tertiary extinction.
Was the k-t extinction in the Tertiary period?
The k-t extinction was ~65million years ago and marks the transition from the Cretaceous to the Tertiary period.
Did organisms live before Cretaceous Tertiary?
Yes, many.
Did Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction have falling sea levels?
No, the global sea level was high.
What was the cretaceous-tertiary event?
A meteorite impacted Earth, causing devastation of the planet and mass extinction.
When did the Cretaceous Tertiary extinction occur?
About 65.5 million years ago. The Cretaceous and Tertiary are geological time periods either side of this event. The event is significant because there was a large mass extinction event at this time including the extinction of all non avian dinosaurs. Most experts agree that the cause of the extinction was a asteroid impact.
What is the K-T extinction?
The k-t extinction marks the transition from the cretaceous to the tertiary period in which it is hypothesized that a meteorite struck the Earth and caused a mass extinction.
Explain te catastrophic event most likely ended the Mesozoic era?
The Cretaceous- Tertiary Extinction
Dominant organisms in tertiary time period?
The dominant organisms living at the Cretaceous period or time were first primates and flowering plants. This was the time when the extinction of the dinosaurs took place.
