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GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Geol.) the time in the latter part of the Mesozoic age during which the Cretaceous formation was deposited, and at the end of which the dinosaurs died out. See Cretaceous.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. from 135 million to 63 million years ago; end of the age of reptiles; appearance of modern insects and flowering plants

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  • “If we survey the fossils so far known in historical order, the following facts are ascertained: The earliest or primary period of the earth is the era of the Pteridophyta, the ferns, horsetails, and club-mosses; in the Triassic and Jurassic periods the gymnosperms prevail, and beginning with the cretaceous period the angiosperms.”

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip

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  1. Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary
  2. chalk period
  3. ichthyosaur
  4. iguanodon
  5. sinornis
  6. inoceramus
  7. ichthyosauria
  1. cretaceous formation
  2. rhaphiosaurus
  3. chirotrichidæ
  4. pachycephalosaur
  5. titanosaur
  6. ankylosaur
  7. ichthyornis
  1. gault
  2. caprina
  3. pteranodon
  4. maiasaur
  5. tyrannosaur
  6. triceratops
  7. trachodon
  1. trachodont
  2. tyrannosaurus
  3. tyrannosaurus rex
  4. ammonite
  5. Cretaceous
  6. genus struthiomimus
  7. ibero-mesornis
  1. latimeria chalumnae
  2. coelacanth
  3. rudistes
  4. ventriculite
  5. microdon
  6. cenomanian
  7. hipponyx
  1. mosasaur
  2. podocnemididæ

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