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Noun: Cretaceous period
  1. The geological period from about 145 million to 66 million years ago, marked by the end of the dinosaurs and the rise of flowering plants and modern insects
    - Cretaceous

Type of: geological period, period

Part of: Age of Reptiles, Mesozoic, Mesozoic era

Encyclopedia: Cretaceous period