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Meanings of cretaceous period in English
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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Examples for "Cretaceous"
Examples for "Cretaceous"
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Dinosaurs had died out in the Cretaceous period, sixty-five million years ago.
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This species roamed what is now Central Asia during the Cretaceous period.
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There are some very remarkable instances of this in the Cretaceous deposits.
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Baron Ether spends six years in the Cretaceous due to time-traveling accident.
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Jurassic and Cretaceous beds form the greater part of the Mesozoic band.
Usage of cretaceous period in English
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The hard siliceous mineral had been torn loose from chalk deposits laid down during the cretaceous period.
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Dinosaurs had died out in the Cretaceous period, sixty-five million years ago.
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This species roamed what is now Central Asia during the Cretaceous period.
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And thirdly, during the Cretaceous period, it was once covered by swamps.
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In the Cretaceous Period, much of this part of the country was underwater.
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They proliferated throughout the Jurassic and the Cretaceous periods that followed.
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Now they were facing something out of the Cretaceous period.
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The idea for a Judicial Council dates from the political equivalent of the Cretaceous period.
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The lemurs or half-apes are the stem-group, descending from the older Mallotheria of the Cretaceous period.
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It's a Lissodus from the Upper Cretaceous period.
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All other members of the order became extinct 60 million years ago, in the late Cretaceous period.
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During the Cretaceous period, several species in the Maniraptoran group evolved different characteristics, based on their environment.
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When the great mountain building took place during the Cretaceous Period, seaways drained and swamps dried up.
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If we ever find a penguin fossil from the Cretaceous period, we'll know for sure, Dr Scofield said.
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Some of the tuffs may be of the Jurassic age, though the Cretaceous period is also largely represented.
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Eastern America, it may be recalled, is much higher than western until the close of the Cretaceous period.