The first dinosaurs were modestly sized, a far cry from the immense dinosaurs of the subsequent Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.
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Cretaceous
/kɹəˈteɪ.ʃəs/
Synonyms for "cretaceous" (24 found)
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Noun(4 words)
cretaceous age materialscretaceous epochcretaceous eracretaceous period
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7 entriesCretaceous chalkCretaceous fossilsCretaceous limestoneCretaceous sandstoneCretaceous shaleearly Cretaceouslate Cretaceous
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7 entriesCretaceous extinctionCretaceous fossilsCretaceous periodCretaceous rocksCretaceous strataearly Cretaceouslate Cretaceous
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2 entriesmore cretaceousmost cretaceous
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Elasmosaurs are a genus of plesiosaur that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous.
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Nasutoceratops — which means big-nosed horn face — lived 76 million years ago, in the late Cretaceous period, in what was then a subtropical swampy environment.
Source: tatoeba (11192006)
Impressions of leaves found in the Upper Cretaceous rocks of the Yellowstone Valley cannot be distinguished from those of the leaves of our two American hazel species of today.
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