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Meanings of Cretaceous in English

Russian
мел
Portuguese
cretácico
Spanish
cretácico
Catalan
cretàcic
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Third and last period of the Mesozoic era.

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        мел

        Cretaceous.

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                Examples for "cretaceous period"
                1
                The hard siliceous mineral had been torn loose from chalk deposits laid down during the cretaceous period.
                The Valley of Horses
                2
                Dinosaurs had died out in the Cretaceous period, sixty-five million years ago.
                Jurassic Park
                3
                This species roamed what is now Central Asia during the Cretaceous period.
                Reuters
                4
                And thirdly, during the Cretaceous period, it was once covered by swamps.
                The South African
                5
                In the Cretaceous Period, much of this part of the country was underwater.
                Wired

                Period.

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                      1
                      Dinosaurs had died out in the Cretaceous period, sixty-five million years ago.
                      Jurassic Park
                      2
                      This species roamed what is now Central Asia during the Cretaceous period.
                      Reuters
                      3
                      There are some very remarkable instances of this in the Cretaceous deposits.
                      The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 / A Magazi...
                      4
                      Baron Ether spends six years in the Cretaceous due to time-traveling accident.
                      Soon I will be invincible
                      5
                      Jurassic and Cretaceous beds form the greater part of the Mesozoic band.
                      The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
                      6
                      Tyrant dinosaur evolution tracks the rise and fall of Late Cretaceous oceans.
                      The Guardian
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                      Until 1938, people thought the coelacanth had been extinct since the Cretaceous.
                      Wild Thing
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                      That's what spoiled Cretaceous-era dinosaur DNA and Neolithic remains found in Spain.
                      Wired
                      9
                      And thirdly, during the Cretaceous period, it was once covered by swamps.
                      The South African
                      10
                      Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg Extinction on Mammal Diversification.
                      The Guardian
                      11
                      Mesozoic, although their ancestral lines may be followed back into the Cretaceous.
                      The Elements of Geology
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                      I looked like a fearful Cretaceous mammal peering out of a cave.
                      Internecine
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                      They appear in Europe and North America in the earliest Cretaceous.
                      The Story of Evolution
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                      Deposits probably of late Cretaceous or early Eocene period, judging from associated specimens.
                      The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
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                      The family appeared in the Upper Cretaceous and became extinct at its close.
                      The Elements of Geology
                      16
                      Of the insects we have very little trace in the Cretaceous.
                      The Story of Evolution