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Categories: Geological periods, Articles with short description, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, Cretaceous
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Cretaceous  Cretaceous period  Climate of the Cretaceous  Creataceous  Cretacaeous
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From 135 million to 63 million years ago; end of the age of reptiles; appearance of modern insects and flowering plants WordNet 3.0
English:
geology
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From 135 million to 63 million years ago; end of the age of reptiles; appearance of modern insects and flowering plants WordNet 3.0
The period from 135 million to 63 million years ago; end of the age of reptiles; appearance of modern insects and flowering plants Open English WordNet
The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago. Wikipedia
Last & 3rd period of the Mesozoic Era, 145-66 million years ago Wikidata
The geologic period within the Mesozoic era that comprises lower and upper epochs from about 146 to 66 million years ago. Wiktionary
Geologic period within the Mesozoic. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
period
system
HAS PART
Early Cretaceous
Late Cretaceous
Senonian
PART OF
Mesozoic
DERIVATION
Cretaceous
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
FOLLOWED BY
Paleogene
FOLLOWS
Jurassic
NAMED AFTER
chalk
NAMED BY
Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy
SIGNIFICANT EVENT
Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Cretaceous, Cretaceous period
Wikipedia
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Cretaceous
Wikidata
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Cretaceous
Wiktionary
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Cretaceous
Wikipedia Redirections
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Climate of the Cretaceous, Creataceous, Cretacaeous, Cretaceous (geology), Cretaceous Africa, Cretaceous Age, Cretaceous era, Cretaceous Period, Cretaceous system, Cretacious, Cretacious Era, Cretacous, Early-Late Cretaceous, early Late Cretaceous, Middle Cretaceous
Wikidata Alias
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Cretaceous period

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