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The Cretaceous period lasted from 145 million to 66 million years ago. It was the last period of the Mesozoic Era and had a warm climate with high sea levels. During this period, dinosaurs dominated on land while oceans were populated by marine reptiles and ammonites. New groups of mammals, birds, and flowering plants appeared. The Cretaceous ended with a mass extinction event that killed off non-avian dinosaurs and large marine reptiles.

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The Cretaceous period lasted from 145 million to 66 million years ago. It was the last period of the Mesozoic Era and had a warm climate with high sea levels. During this period, dinosaurs dominated on land while oceans were populated by marine reptiles and ammonites. New groups of mammals, birds, and flowering plants appeared. The Cretaceous ended with a mass extinction event that killed off non-avian dinosaurs and large marine reptiles.

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The Cretaceous ( /krɪˈteɪʃəs/, kri-TAY-shəs) is a geologic period and system that spans from the

end of the Jurassic Period 145 million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period
66 mya. It is the last period of the Mesozoic Era, and the longest period of the Phanerozoic Eon.
The Cretaceous Period is usually abbreviated K, for its German translation Kreide (chalk, creta in
Latin).
The Cretaceous was a period with a relatively warm climate, resulting in high eustatic sea
levels that created numerous shallow inland seas. These oceans and seas were populated with
now-extinct marine reptiles, ammonites and rudists, while dinosaurs continued to dominate on
land. During this time, new groups of mammals and birds, as well as flowering plants, appeared.
The Cretaceous (along with the Mesozoic) ended with the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction
event, a large mass extinction in which many groups, including non-avian
dinosaurs, pterosaurs and large marine reptiles died out. The end of the Cretaceous is defined
by the abrupt Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (K–Pg boundary), a geologic signature
associated with the mass extinction which lies between the Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras.

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