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cretaceous

Synonyms

Adjective

1. calcite

2. period

Noun

1. geological period, Cretaceous

2. Cretaceous period, period, geological period

Usage
The mounted skeleton, from the Late Cretaceous period about 67 million years ago, had been estimated to sell for $20 million to $30 million. I via ANC 24/7 Link of full story in the comment section. - facebook.com
T. rex was likely responsible for some tooth marks on fossil bones from Cretaceous era - Phys.org
Tyrannosaurus rex Scavenged Duck-Billed Dinosaurs in Ancient Wyoming, Bite Marks Reveal - Sci.News
Fungal Surges Marked Cretaceous Mass Extinction that Ended Age of Dinosaurs - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Darkness and body size shaped end-Cretaceous marine extinction patterns - Nature
Cretaceous fossil forest reveals dinosaurs dined on large fruits and seeds - Open Access Government
Scientists found South America’s first insect-bearing amber, a 112-million-year-old time capsule from a l - The Times of India
'Cretaceous Kraken' prowled the seas during the age of dinosaurs - Reuters
‘Big, scary animals with big, scary teeth’: Take a tour through SC’s Cretaceous Period ocean - Post and Courier
High productivity and multilayered circulation in the Late Cretaceous Arctic Ocean - Science | AAAS
The First Octopuses Were Kraken-like Monsters In the Cretaceous Waters - ZME Science
The first sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Khok Kruat Formation of Thailand enriches the diversity of somphospondylan titanosauriforms in southeast Asia | Scientific Reports - Nature
A new late Cretaceous squamate from Patagonia sheds light on Gondwanan diversity | Scientific Reports - Nature
Did kraken-like octopuses rule Cretaceous seas? Massive jaw fossils offer clues - Nature
Rapid mid-Cretaceous diversification of squid and cuttlefish preceded radiation into coastal niches - Nature
A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe - Nature
Cellular-level preservation of cutaneous spikes in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur - Nature
Cretaceous crocodyliform reconciles conflicting evidence on the Mesozoic paleogeography of Europe during the Gondwana-Laurasia split - Nature
Ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary confirmed by new data from Denmark - Nature
Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosaurus coexisted at the close of the Cretaceous - Nature
A real-life Kraken stalked the seas of the late Cretaceous - Louisville Public Media
Fossil amber reveals the secret lives of Cretaceous ants - Frontiers
A new sauropod tracksite from the Lower Cretaceous of Ningxia, Northwestern China, with implications for overtrack preservation - Nature
Dinosaur extinction can explain continental facies shifts at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary - Nature
Giant, kraken-like octopuses may have ruled the Cretaceous deep - Science News
Cretaceous Bird from China Had Pair of Tail Feathers Twice as Long as Its Body - Sci.News
A domed pachycephalosaur from the early Cretaceous of Mongolia - Nature
Jaw fossils suggest a 60-foot octopus was the ‘kraken’ of the Cretaceous - National Geographic
Fungi Bloomed Twice around End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction - Sci.News
The fish were biting in ancient Alabama: Tooth found embedded in Cretaceous apex predator's neck - Phys.org
Distinct feeding biomechanics in Late Cretaceous marine reptiles from the Western Interior Seaway - Wiley Online Library
Giant Octopus May Have Ruled Cretaceous Oceans - JAPAN Forward
In Cretaceous Oceans, Giant ‘Kraken-Like’ Octopuses May Have Been Top Predators - Sci.News
Depositional Setting of Eastern Sakarya Zone (NE Türkiye): Late Cretaceous–Paleogene Period Biostratigraphy, Sedimentology and Tectono-Sedimentary Basin Evolution - Wiley Online Library
Giant octopuses once roamed Cretaceous oceans - Le Monde.fr
Colossal octopus may have dominated Cretaceous oceans, researchers say - The Jerusalem Post
Fossil jaws hidden inside Cretaceous rocks have revealed that 100 million years ago, some octopuses grew into giant predators — possibly longer than a bus and more fearsome than any octopus alive today. - Space Daily
Potter wasp nests in Cretaceous amber - ScienceDirect.com
Oxygen-depleted and ferruginous seawater composition imprinted in Early Cretaceous Fe-rich Al-glauconites in marginal marine deposits - Nature
Latest Cretaceous Dinosaurs Lived in Vibrant, Regionally Distinct Communities - Sci.News
Shell-cracking turtles defied mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period - EurekAlert!
The oldest acanthomorph fossil (Actinopterygii, Teleostei) from the Early Cretaceous of Gondwana (Morro do Chaves Formation, Sergipe–Alagoas Basin, NE Brazil) - Wiley Online Library
Turtle fossil narrows timeline of Cretaceous species migration - Phys.org
Scientists just discovered a 60-foot-long, kraken-like octopus - The Washington Post
Supercritical-flow structures in a Cretaceous submarine channel–lobe transition zone, Point Loma Formation, California - Wiley Online Library
A 19m-Long Giant Octopus Roamed the Cretaceous Seas - Explorersweb »
CSI: Cretaceous. A reptile body farm is shedding light on how dinosaurs died. - National Geographic
Tiny New Dinosaur Species Is An Early Cretaceous Cutie – And Fills A 70-Million-Year Evolutionary Gap - IFLScience
Paleontologists Discover an Ancient Marine Reptile They've Dubbed the T. Rex of the Sea, Crowning Another King of the Cretaceous - Smithsonian Magazine
Bringing the Cretaceous to Calvin: Dice Museum reveals fossil and student artwork - Calvin University Chimes
A ‘Hairy’ Mushroom from the Mid-Cretaceous Kachin Amber - Springer Nature Link
Shell-cracking turtles defied mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period - Phys.org
Did Dinosaurs Get The Zoomies? New Trackway Reveals Fastest Theropod Ever Documented From The Cretaceous - IFLScience
Tiny fossil eggs provide first physical evidence of Cretaceous bird-like dinosaurs in Korea - Phys.org
Meet the 19-meter Cretaceous kraken that swam with mosasaurs - Ars Technica
Astronomic forcing climate changes recorded in the Late Cretaceous Nenjiang Formation, Gulong area, Songliao Basin, NE China - Frontiers
Rare Fossils in Amber Raise Questions About Secret Lives of Cretaceous Insects - Good News Network
Depositional Setting of Eastern Sakarya Zone (NE Türkiye): Late Cretaceous–Paleogene Period Biostratigraphy, Sedimentology and Tectono‐Sedimentary Basin Evolution - Köroğlu - 2026 - Basin Research - Wiley Online Library
Two Species of Coelurosaurs Co-Existed in Cretaceous-Era Brazil - Sci.News
First plesiosaurian fossil discovered in Algeria fills a Cretaceous gap - Phys.org
Study: Europe’s Cretaceous Fauna Includes More Ceratopsian Dinosaurs than Previously Thought - Sci.News
New Crocodyliform Species from Cretaceous Period Unearthed in Montana - Sci.News
Ask Rufus: The Dr. John M ‘Jack’ Kaye Cretaceous Fossil Park - Commercial Dispatch
Spokane County Sheriff’s Office seeks help in solving cretaceous kidnapping - The Spokesman-Review
19-meter-long giant octopuses likely kings of Cretaceous seas - 朝日新聞
Concerning the historical holotype of the Cretaceous bivalve Lahillia larseni | Antarctic Science | Cambridge Core - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Researchers uncover the fossil of a new mammal from the Cretaceous period - dailyuw.com
75-million-year-old bite marks reveal the scavengers of the Cretaceous - EurekAlert!
Scientists uncover first clear evidence of horned dinosaurs in Cretaceous Europe - University of Birmingham
Crystallized dino eggs provide a peek into the tumultuous Late Cretaceous - Science News
The fastest-running theropod trackway in the Cretaceous from Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China - EurekAlert!
West Africa Cretaceous plays, a game changer - Wood Mackenzie
Giant octopus fossils reveal 19-meter creatures roamed Cretaceous seas - 동아사이언스
The first Cheliferidae (Pseudoscorpiones: Cheliferoidea) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber - Wiley Online Library
Protracted intercontinental aridification preserved within the early Late Cretaceous strata of the Eastern Gobi Basin, Mongolia - Tucker - 2026 - Sedimentology - Wiley Online Library
A new insect boring in fossil wood from the Iranian Upper Cretaceous - Ghaedi - 2025 - Palaeontology - Wiley Online Library
Giant Cretaceous octopuses dominated seas, researchers find - Межа. Новини України.
Early Cretaceous Fossil in Swiss Museum Found to Be New Species of Marine Turtle - Sci.News
Paleontologists Directly Date Dinosaur Eggs for the First Time, Shedding Light on the Cretaceous World 85 Million Years Ago - Smithsonian Magazine
A New Species of Radula (Radulaceae, Porellales) From Mid‐Cretaceous Kachin Amber - Wiley Online Library
Back to an ice-free future: Early Cretaceous seasonal cycles of sea surface temperature and glacier ice - Science | AAAS
'Cretaceous Kraken' prowled the seas during the age of dinosaurs - CNA
Fossil Site in Bolivia Records Thousands of Cretaceous Dinosaur Tracks, Tail Traces, and Swim Tracks - Sci.News
Japan researchers find squid dominated ancient Cretaceous period seas - Japan Wire by Kyodo News
A record-breaking T. rex, an Antarctic fossil, and the climate clues in dinosaur bones - Yahoo News UK
Cretaceous bird from Brazil informs the evolution of the avian skull and brain - Nature
The end-Cretaceous mass extinction restructured functional diversity but failed to configure the modern marine biota - Science | AAAS
Arctic bird nesting traces back to the Cretaceous - Science | AAAS
Cretaceous Antarctic bird skull elucidates early avian ecological diversity - Nature
Ecosystem changes after Early Cretaceous seawater intrusion into the proto-South Atlantic Ocean - MIT Energy Initiative
Differences Between Present‐Day and Cretaceous Hydrological Cycle Responses to Rising CO2 Concentration - AGU Publications
Brawn before brains in placental mammals after the end-Cretaceous extinction - Science | AAAS
Recurring volcanic winters during the latest Cretaceous: Sulfur and fluorine budgets of Deccan Traps lavas - Science | AAAS
Amber in the Cretaceous deep sea deposits reveals large-scale tsunamis | Scientific Reports - Nature
Museum of the Rockies debuts new paleontology exhibition, ‘Cretaceous Crossroads’ - Montana State University
Late Cretaceous ammonoids show that drivers of diversification are regionally heterogeneous - Nature
The early Cretaceous was cold but punctuated by warm snaps resulting from episodic volcanism - Nature
The end-Cretaceous plant extinction: Heterogeneity, ecosystem transformation, and insights for the future - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Permafrost in the Cretaceous supergreenhouse - Nature
Rapid ocean acidification and protracted Earth system recovery followed the end-Cretaceous Chicxulub impact - PNAS
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Misspellings - Typos
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Words Starting with Letter - 'A'
a a battery a billion
a bit a bit much a capella singing
a cappella singing a couple of a few
a fortiori a good deal a great deal
a horizon a hundred a hundred and one
a hundred thousand a hundred times a kempis
a la carte a la mode a level
a little a lot a million
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