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Bookmark or Share- Evidence for global cooling in the Late Cretaceous - NatureThe Late Cretaceous ‘greenhouse’ world witnessed a transition from one of the warmest climates of the past 140 million years to cooler conditions, yet still without significant continental ice.
- The Cretaceous Period - University of California Museum of PaleontologyWhat killed the dinosaurs? Tectonics and paleoclimate. The Cretaceous is defined as the period between 145.5 and 65.5 million years ago,* the last period of the Mesozoic Era, following the Jurassic and ending with the extinction of the dinosaurs (except birds).
- Cretaceous Period Facts and Information | National GeographicThe carnivore Tyrannosaurus rex dominated the late Cretaceous in the north while monstrous meat-eaters like Spinosaurus, which had a huge sail-like fin on its back, thrived in the south....
- Cretaceous Period - Dinosaurs, Plants, Marine Life | BritannicaThe Late Cretaceous record is much more complete, particularly in the case of North America and Asia. It is known, for instance, that during the Late Cretaceous many dinosaur types lived in relationships not unlike the present-day terrestrial mammal communities.
- Cretaceous Period - Mesozoic, Paleogene, Cenozoic | BritannicaBoth the Early and the Late Cretaceous epochs in turn are divided into six ages of variable length. Their definition was initiated during the mid- to late 1800s, when geologists working in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland recognized and named the 12 corresponding rock stages.
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