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What is the dominant vertebrates throughout the Cretaceous period?
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The common consensus is that dinosaurs dominated the land, being the most diverse large animals, and reaching huge sizes. In the oceans, large marine creatures included plesiosaurs, pliosaurs, ichthyosaurs (during the Jurassic and early Cretaceous), and mosasaurs (during the Cretaceous). The skies were ruled by pterosaurs. Coniferous trees were the primary large plants.
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The dominant vertrebrates throughout the cretaceous period were?
Reptiles were the primary large animals during the Cretaceous period. On land, there were dinosaurs, in the air were pterosaurs, and the oceans were inhabited by plesiosaurs and mosasaurs.
What were the dominant organisms during the Cretaceous period?
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What were the dominant organisms living at the time of cretaceous period?
dinosaurs
What was the dominant animal of the cretaceous period?
Early Paleozoic is pretty long time, so you have to be more specific about that. Probably one of the most dominant creatures that ever evolved was Anomalocaris (from Cambrian period). Most of the animals from that time couple of inches long, while Anomalocaris was 2 meters long. Also giant scorpions, like world famous Jaekelopterus rhenaniae were also top predators of it's days.
What was the dominant land animal during the Jurassic and cretaceous period?
The dinosaurs were the dominant land animals during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, rising to dominance during the late Triassic.
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.
What period were dinosaurs from?
None-avian dinosaurs first appeared in the Triassic period and were the dominant land vertebrates through the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. At the end of the Cretaceous period, 65.5 million years ago, all non-avian dinosaurs went extinct. Birds, which are now classified as dinosaurs, continue to live to his day.
What period was after the cretaceous?
The period after the Cretaceous is the Paleogene period, which is part of the Cenozoic era. It includes the Paleocene, Eocene, and Oligocene epochs.
What Geological Period preceded the Jurassic Period?
after Jurrasic period it is the Cretaceous period
What was the the environment like during the cretaceous period?
It was a warm tropical place in which many angiosperms (flowering plants) developed and became dominant. Because of this, many new herbivores appeared and others went extinct.The Cretaceous Period was hot and dry.
In which period were the dinosaurs dominant aka age of the dinosaurs?
They were dominant during the mesozoic era, which was made up of the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods.
Dinosaurs and angiosperms were dominant lineages during with geologic era?
I know that the angiosperms were most dominant during the cretaceous period but im not too sure about the dinosaurs dominant era. I would assume they were both dominant in the same era but I am not 100% sure.
