The Cretaceous period was the last of three periods in the Mesozoic era. It lasted from 145 million to 65.5 million years ago.
The Jurassic period took place before the Cretaceous era and after the Triassic era. It started around 199 million years ago and ended about 44 millions years later. (145 million years ago if you can't do the maths).
Mesozoic Era
The Jurassic period took place before the Cretaceous era and after the Triassic era. It started around 199 million years ago and ended about 44 millions years later. (145 million years ago if you can't do the maths).
65 million years ago
Cretaceous Research was created in 1980.
Cretaceous.
Yes, both animals lived in North Africa during the early cretaceous.
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.
The Cretaceous period followed the Jurassic period and lasted from about 145 million to 66 million years ago. In the Cretaceous period, flowering plants became more dominant, dinosaurs continued to diversify, and large marine reptiles like mosasaurs thrived. However, the end of the Cretaceous period marked by a mass extinction event where dinosaurs and many other species went extinct.
Miocene the event took place at the close of the cretaceous period which whiped out the dinosaurs.
The Paleogene Period followed the Cretaceous.
The origin of the word cretaceous comes from the Latin "creta" which means "chalk".