History of Earth - Cretaceous Period - (Mesozoic Era)

					CRETACEOUS
					THE CRETACEOUS PERIOD 145 TO 65 Million Years Ago
					The Long Age of Dinosaurs - Part 2 Huge Reptiles Rule the Land, Sea and Air
It had large iron teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. - Daniel 7:7
Jurassic							Paleocene
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Laurasia splits into North America and Eurasia Gondwana fractures into Africa, South America, Antarctica/Australia, and India (an island continent) Shrinking Panthalassa becomes Pacific Ocean Atlantic Ocean forms as Tethys continues to shrink Climate warm and humid world-wide with vast forests Broad shallow continental seas stabilize temperatures Era ends when asteroid impact brings mass extinction
Life
Dinosaurs - in wide variety - dominate the land Theropod carnivores (right) wildly proliferate into forms ranging from huge to small & bird-like Birds proliferate as pterosaurs decline Ornithischia herbivores (below) wildly proliferate Marine reptiles (plesiosaurs & mosasaurs) flourish Flowering plants (angiosperms) appear & flourish with help from new insects: bees, ants and butterflies Calcium-shelled marine life leave vast chalk beds
			Vast herds of Triceratops (left) & other "horned-faced" dinosaurs wandered over the plains of Laurasia in the late Cretaceous (Image: Dinosaurs)			The Tyrant Lizard of the Cretaceous: Tyrannosaurus (front) hunts "Duck-bills" (back left) (Image: Raul Martin)

		Eomaia, (left), a mouse-sized Cretaceous mammal, was an early ancestor of the placental mammals (all mammals which nourish the fetus internally, like humans). (Image: M. Klingler/CMNH)
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SOURCES: University of California Museum of Paleontology - Tour of Geologic Time Wikipedia - Geologic Time Scale Palaeos - Geological Time IInternational Commission on Stratigraphy By Corey Zak - CORZAK INTERACTIVE