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Prehistoric plants of the Cretaceous Period, during the Late/Upper Mesozoic Era See also the preceding Category:Jurassic plants and the succeeding Category:Paleogene plants Subcategories
The fossil history of flowering plants records the development of flowers and other distinctive structures of the angiosperms, now the dominant group of plants on land.The history is controversial as flowering plants appear in great diversity in the Cretaceous, with scanty and debatable records before that, creating a puzzle for evolutionary biologists that Charles Darwin named an "abominable ...
Pages in category "Late Cretaceous plants" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Antarctoxylon;
This genus is known in the fossil record from the Late Cretaceous to the Miocene (from about 84.9 to 11.6 million years ago). Fossils of species within this genus have been found in Germany, Italy (Sardinia), United States, Egypt, Libya and Argentina (Bororó and Salamanca Formations). [1]
Heilungia, Late Jurassic to early Cretaceous, Russia & Alaska (leaf form genus) Leptocycas Late Triassic, North Carolina & China (known from the whole plant) [ 20 ] Mesosingeria , Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, Antarctica & Argentina (leaf form genus)
The Maastrichtian (/ m ɑː ˈ s t r ɪ k t i ə n / mahss-TRIK-tee-ən) is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) geologic timescale, the latest age (uppermost stage) of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or Upper Cretaceous Series, the Cretaceous Period or System, and of the Mesozoic Era or Erathem. It spanned the interval from .
The Hell Creek Formation in Montana overlies the Fox Hills Formation and underlies the Fort Union Formation, and the boundary with the latter occurs near the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (K–Pg), which defines the end of the Cretaceous period and has been dated to 66 ± 0.07 Ma old. [6]
The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous Series. The Cretaceous is named after creta, the Latin word for the white limestone known as chalk.