Cretaceous period facts

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Cretaceous period facts

• Find out more facts about the Cretaceous period

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Landscape and climate

• Warm and dry climate.
• The super continent Pangaea was drifting apart.
• The Tethys Ocean separated the northern Laurasia
  and southern
• Gondwana.

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ANIMALS

• Birds, fish, lizards, snakes, snails, clams,
  insects, mammals.

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PLANTS AND VEGETATION

• Flowering plants started to appear, black pepper
  plant,thought to be 122 million years old.

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BREEDS OF DINOSAURS

• T-rex, Ankylosaurus, Gigantosaurus, Hadrosaurus,
  Megaraptor,
• Orinthomimus, Seismosaurus, Triceratops, Troodon.

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Anklyosaurus

• Bony plates on back, spikes, heavy club on the
  end of tail.
• 20.5 feet long, 4.9 feet wide, 5.6 tall, 4 tons
• It ate low lying plants
• Triangular skull, narrow beak

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triceratops

• Bulky like a rhino
• Bony neck frill,parrot like beak,cheek teeth
• Walked on four sturdy legs
• Three horns on face
• Scales

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T-rex

• T-rex was King of all the dinosaurs
• Huge head
• Arms couldnt reach its own head

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End of cretaceous period

• The dinosaurs ended with a huge meteorite hitting
  the earth

dinosaurs in cretaceous period