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  • proper noun geology The second age in the Late Cretaceous epoch, or a stage in the Upper Cretaceous series, spanning the time between 93.5 ± 0.8 Ma and 89.3 ± 1 Ma (million years ago), preceded by the Cenomanian stage and underlying the Coniacian stage.

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Examples

  • They had thought that Earth was ice free during the so called Turonian period, a "super greenhouse world" between 93.5 million and 89.3 million years ago.

    The persistence of glaciers... GayandRight 2008

  • I read a paper in the new JVP, "A new basal hadrosauroid (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the Turonian of New Mexico."

    Everyday Life in Postapocalyptic America ellen_datlow 2010

  • I read a paper in the new JVP, "A new basal hadrosauroid (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the Turonian of New Mexico."

    Everyday Life in Postapocalyptic America ellen_datlow 2010

  • Crocodiles roamed the Arctic and sea surface temperatures in the western tropical Atlantic Ocean reached 98 degrees Fahrenheit (37 Celsius), compared to today's 84 F (29 C) during the extremely warm Turonian stage of the late Cretaceous period.

    Croc Update (Arctic Edition) Bill Crider 2008

  • Protohadros was a large ornithopod native to Texas, living at the very end of the Early Cretaceous period, right before the big extinction in the Turonian that knocked off the stegosaurs, a lot of the pterosaurs, and others.

    Life's Time Capsule: Thoughts on Palaeoart II Peter Bond 2009

  • Turonian, and Senonian periods, and disappear again in the succeeding one.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

  • We take it, driving north towards the Uchaux Mountains, the classic home of superb Turonian fossils.

    The Mason-Bees Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • The hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs encountered were Campanian and Turonian in age and similar to those seen in the discovery well.

    unknown title 2011

  • Can you give me an idea of what that pay distribution is between the Cenomanian and the Turonian?

    unknown title 2011

  • The discovery well encountered approximately 174 net feet of high-quality oil pay in two zones of stacked Turonian-age reservoir sands contained within a gross vertical reservoir interval of more than 500 feet.

    StreetInsider.com News Articles 2010

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