Cretaceous

cretaceous English Etymology Specific use of en cretaceous. Pronunciation en /kɹəˈteɪ.ʃəs/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Cretaceous.wav Southern England en eɪʃəs 3 Proper noun en geology The geologic period within the Mesozoic era that comprises lower and upper epochs from about 146 to 66 million years ago. V 3–4 As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc. en 2017-08-09 Mark Carnall w:The Guardian Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/09/why-do-cephalopods-produce-ink-and-what-on-earth-is-it-anyway Fossils are particularly well described from the Carboniferous, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and have been found in the USA, England, Russia, Lebanon and Germany. Sites such as Lyme Regis in Dorset have particularly yielded number of Jurassic “squid” ink sacs and nodules (Doguzhaeva et al. 2004). https://web.archive.org/web/20260112040033/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/09/why-do-cephalopods-produce-ink-and-what-on-earth-is-it-anyway Derived terms en end-Cretaceous Translations geologic period within the Mesozoic Armenian: hy Կեղտոտ Azerbaijani: az Kretase Catalan: ca cretaci m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 白堊紀 Bái'èjì Czech: cs křída f Dutch: nl Krijt n Estonian: et kriit, et kriidiajastu Finnish: fi liitukausi French: fr Crétacé m Galician: gl Cretáceo m Georgian: ka ცარცული, ka ცარცული პერიოდი, ka ცარცული სისტემა German: de Kreide f Greek: el Κρητιδική f Hebrew: he קְרֶטִיקוֹן m qretiqón Hungarian: hu kréta Italian: it cretacico m, it cretaceo m Japanese: ja 白亜紀 はくあき, Hakuaki, ja 白堊紀 はくあき, Hakuaki Korean: ko ^백악기 Mongolian: Cyrillic: mn Цэрдийн галав Mongolian script: mn ᠴᠡᠷᠳᠡ ᠵᠢᠨ ᠭᠠᠯᠪᠠ Norwegian: no kritt Occitan: oc cretacèu m Polish: pl kreda f Portuguese: pt cretáceo m Romanian: ro cretacic Russian: ru мелово́й пери́од m, ru мел m Spanish: es Cretáceo m, es Cretácico m Swedish: sv krita Turkish: tr kretase Uyghur: ug بور دەۋرى Vietnamese: vi kỉ Crê-ta, vi kỉ Phấn Trắng See also Appendix:Geologic timescale en 3-syllable words