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CretaceousPeriod of geological time approximately 143-65 million years ago. It is the last period of the Mesozoic era, during which angiosperm (seed-bearing) plants evolved, and dinosaurs reached a peak. The end of the Cretaceous period is marked by a mass extinction of many lifeforms, most notably the dinosaurs. The north European chalk, which forms the white cliffs of Dover, was deposited during the latter half of the Cretaceous, hence the name Cretaceous, which comes from the Latin creta, ‘chalk’. |
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| It may be that he swept back into the past, and fell among the blood-drinking, hairy savages of the Age of Unpolished Stone; into the abysses of the Cretaceous Sea; or among the grotesque saurians, the huge reptilian brutes of the Jurassic times. Flintcomb-Ash being in the middle of the cretaceous tableland over which no railway had climbed as yet, it would be necessary to walk. |
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Cretaceous
