Where did plants and animals live during the Cretaceous period?

1. What environment did the Cretaceous live in?
2. Were there plants in the Cretaceous period?
3. What plants and animals lived during the Cretaceous period?
4. What was plant life like in the Cretaceous period?
5. Where was Antarctica during the Cretaceous period?
6. What happened during the Cretaceous period?
7. What animals survived the Cretaceous period?
8. What animals survived the Cretaceous extinction?
9. Did pterosaurs have teeth?
10. What herbivores lived during the Cretaceous period?
11. Which group of plants first appear in the Cretaceous?
12. What did dinosaurs eat in the Cretaceous period?
13. What plants and animals lived in the Jurassic period?
14. What animals lived in the Triassic period?
15. What happened between the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods?

What environment did the Cretaceous live in?

The Cretaceous was a period with a relatively warm climate, resulting in high eustatic sea levels that created numerous shallow inland seas. These oceans and seas were populated with now-extinct marine reptiles, ammonites, and rudists, while dinosaurs continued to dominate on land.

Were there plants in the Cretaceous period?

The land plants of the Early Cretaceous were similar to those of the Jurassic. They included the cycads, ginkgoes, conifers, and ferns.

What plants and animals lived during the Cretaceous period?

Magnolia, ficus, and sassafras quickly outnumbered ferns, conifers, gingkoes, and cycads. Much of this rich life—including all dinosaurs, pterosaurs, pliosaurs, and ammonites—perished in the extinction event at the end of the period 65 million years ago.

What was plant life like in the Cretaceous period?

By the end of the Cretaceous such plants became dominant. Willow, elm, grape, laurel, birch, oak, and maple also made their appearance, along with grass and the sequoias of California. Closely associated with the angiosperms were insects, including a form of the dragonfly, and most were similar to today's insects.

Where was Antarctica during the Cretaceous period?

The South Polar region of the Cretaceous comprised the continent of East Gondwana–modern day Australia and Antarctica–a product of the break-up of Gondwana.

What happened during the Cretaceous period?

During the Cretaceous, accelerated plate collision caused mountains to build along the western margin of North America. As these mountains were rising, the Gulf of Mexico basin subsided, and seawater began to spread northward into the expanding western interior. Marine water also began to flood from the Arctic region.

What animals survived the Cretaceous period?

The surviving group of dinosaurs were avians, ground and water fowl who radiated into all modern species of bird. Teleost fish, and perhaps lizards also radiated.

What animals survived the Cretaceous extinction?

Birds: Birds are the only dinosaurs to survive the mass extinction event 65 million years ago. Frogs & Salamanders: These seemingly delicate amphibians survived the extinction that wiped out larger animals. Lizards: These reptiles, distant relatives of dinosaurs, survived the extinction.

Did pterosaurs have teeth?

The pterosaur had a massive wingspan of about 4.9 feet (1.5 meters) — about as wide as a 10-year-old child is tall — and sported a total of 110 teeth, four of them inch-long (2.5 centimeters) fangs, said study researcher Brooks Britt, an associate professor of geology at Brigham Young University in Utah.

What herbivores lived during the Cretaceous period?

Large herds of herbivorous ornithischians also thrived during the Cretaceous, such as Iguanodon (a genus that includes duck-billed dinosaurs, also known as hadrosaurs), Ankylosaurus and the ceratopsians.

Which group of plants first appear in the Cretaceous?

Angiosperms. The angiosperms, or flowering plants, first appeared and became abundant in the Cretaceous.

What did dinosaurs eat in the Cretaceous period?

Omnivore Dinosaurs of the Cretaceous

Omnivore dinosaurs would have eaten both plants and meat - probably eggs, insects and smaller cretaceous animals. Also in this time was the dinosaur Oviraptor - but scientists do not know what this dinosaur ate.

What plants and animals lived in the Jurassic period?

The many smaller and medium-sized dinosaurs that lived during this time, like Xiaosaurus, Dryosaurus, Kentrosaurus, and Stegosaurus, would have browsed on low-lying plants, like seed ferns, ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and low-lying conifers.

What animals lived in the Triassic period?

Modern groups whose ancestral forms appeared for the first time in the Middle and Late Triassic include lizards, turtles, rhynchocephalians (lizardlike animals), and crocodilians. The mammal-like reptiles, or therapsids, suffered pulses of extinctions in the Late Permian.

What happened between the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods?

In the Jurassic, both plant-eating and meat-eating dinosaurs grew enormous. The world broke into two continents. In the Cretaceous, flowering plants and many insects evolved. Duck-billed dinosaurs and horned dinosaurs developed.