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What unit of geologic time followed the mass extinction of dinosaurs?
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Jurassic period
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Is the Jurassic period a geologic time that followed the mass extinction of dinosaurs?
No. The Jurassic was in the middle of the dinosaurs' reign on Earth. The time period after the extinction of the dinosaurs is referred to as the Paleogene or the Tertiary.
The last mass extinction of dinosaurs on Earth occurred between which two geologic periods?
asteroid attack
What is the name for the modern era which began approximtely 65 million years ago with the mass extinction of the dinosaurs?
The Cretaceous period ended with the extinction of the dinosaurs. The period that followed the mass extinction was called the Paleocene. This was a time of the mammals.
Can you use mass extinction in a sentence?
The dinosaurs fell victim to a mass extinction.
The ends of the geologic eras such as the Paleozoic and Mesozoic are marked by?
mass extinction
Did asteroids cause the mass extinction of dinosaurs?
I think so.
What are mass extinctions followed by?
Mass extinctions are usually followed by long periods of low or absent population. Some species always survive a mass extinction, following the Darwinian law of survival. When the dinosaurs died out the mammals began to prevail and eventually took over.
What is an example of mass extinction?
When the meteorite hit Earth and killed the dinosaurs.
How do you use mass extinction in a sentence?
The mass extinction of dinosaurs were caused volcanoes that cause global warming with their toxic gases, therefore, killing the plants, starving the plant eating dinosaurs to death, and with no more plant eating dinosaurs, the meat eating dinosaurs died, too.
How do you use the word mass extinction in a sentence?
We are still not sure what caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, though an asteroid impact seems to be the popular theory.Scientists believe we may be heading towards another mass extinction event.
Why weren't dinosaurs and cavemen together?
There was a mass extinction, killing of the dinosaurs before early hominids (humans) came along.
Who disappeared during the last mass extinction?
Notable extinctions during the last mass extinction included all non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, and ammonites.
