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Cretaceous and List of fossil sites

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Difference between Cretaceous and List of fossil sites

Cretaceous vs. List of fossil sites

The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya. This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils.

Similarities between Cretaceous and List of fossil sites

Cretaceous and List of fossil sites have 45 things in common (in Unionpedia): Africa, Alaska, Albian, Antarctica, Aptian, Bird, Campanian, Cenomanian, Coniacian, Crocodilia, Dinosaur, Early Cretaceous, Echinoderm, Europe, Geological formation, Germany, Hakel, Hell Creek Formation, India, Insect, Jurassic, Kansas, Lagerstätte, Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian, Madagascar, Mammal, Marine reptile, Marsupial, Mesozoic, ..., Miocene, Mosasaur, North America, Paleobotany, Paleogene, Paleozoic, Paris Basin, Pterosaur, Smoky Hill Chalk, South America, South Dakota, Tetrapod, Texas, Turonian, Yixian Formation. Expand index (15 more) »

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Alaska

Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.

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Albian

The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent.

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Aptian

The Aptian is an age in the geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column.

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Campanian

The Campanian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, the fifth of six ages of the Late Cretaceous epoch (or, in chronostratigraphy: the fifth of six stages in the Upper Cretaceous series).

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Cenomanian

The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous series.

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Coniacian

The Coniacian is an age or stage in the geologic timescale.

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Crocodilia

Crocodilia (or Crocodylia) is an order of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic archosaurian reptiles, known as crocodilians.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Early Cretaceous

The Early Cretaceous/Middle Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name), is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.

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Echinoderm

Echinoderm is the common name given to any member of the phylum Echinodermata (from Ancient Greek, ἐχῖνος, echinos – "hedgehog" and δέρμα, derma – "skin") of marine animals.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Geological formation

A formation or geological formation is the fundamental unit of lithostratigraphy.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Hakel

The Hakel is a palaeontological formation located in Lebanon.

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Hell Creek Formation

The Hell Creek Formation is an intensively-studied division of mostly Upper Cretaceous and some lower Paleocene rocks in North America, named for exposures studied along Hell Creek, near Jordan, Montana.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Insect

Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.

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Jurassic

The Jurassic (from Jura Mountains) was a geologic period and system that spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period Mya.

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Kansas

Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States.

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Lagerstätte

A Lagerstätte (from Lager 'storage, lair' Stätte 'place'; plural Lagerstätten) is a sedimentary deposit that exhibits extraordinary fossils with exceptional preservation—sometimes including preserved soft tissues.

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous period is divided in the geologic timescale.

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Maastrichtian

The Maastrichtian is, in the 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.

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Madagascar

Madagascar (Madagasikara), officially the Republic of Madagascar (Repoblikan'i Madagasikara; République de Madagascar), and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa.

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Mammal

Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.

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Marine reptile

Reptiles that live in the sea. Marine reptiles are reptiles which have become secondarily adapted for an aquatic or semiaquatic life in a marine environment.

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Marsupial

Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia.

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Mesozoic

The Mesozoic Era is an interval of geological time from about.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Mosasaur

Mosasaurs (from Latin Mosa meaning the 'Meuse river', and Greek σαύρος sauros meaning 'lizard') are an extinct group of large marine reptiles containing 38 genera in total.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Paleobotany

Paleobotany, also spelled as palaeobotany (from the Greek words paleon.

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Paleogene

The Paleogene (also spelled Palaeogene or Palæogene; informally Lower Tertiary or Early Tertiary) is a geologic period and system that spans 43 million years from the end of the Cretaceous Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Neogene Period Mya.

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Paleozoic

The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era (from the Greek palaios (παλαιός), "old" and zoe (ζωή), "life", meaning "ancient life") is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.

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Paris Basin

The Paris Basin is one of the major geological regions of France having developed since the Triassic on a basement formed by the Variscan orogeny.

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Pterosaur

Pterosaurs (from the Greek πτερόσαυρος,, meaning "winged lizard") were flying reptiles of the extinct clade or order Pterosauria.

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Smoky Hill Chalk

The Smoky Hill Chalk Member of the Niobrara Chalk formation is a Cretaceous conservation Lagerstätte, or fossil rich geological formation, known primarily for its exceptionally well-preserved marine reptiles.

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South America

South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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South Dakota

South Dakota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Tetrapod

The superclass Tetrapoda (from Greek: τετρα- "four" and πούς "foot") contains the four-limbed vertebrates known as tetrapods; it includes living and extinct amphibians, reptiles (including dinosaurs, and its subgroup birds) and mammals (including primates, and all hominid subgroups including humans), as well as earlier extinct groups.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Turonian

The Turonian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, the second age in the Late Cretaceous epoch, or a stage in the Upper Cretaceous series.

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Yixian Formation

The Yixian Formation is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans 11 million years during the early Cretaceous period.

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Cretaceous and List of fossil sites Comparison

Cretaceous has 252 relations, while List of fossil sites has 719. As they have in common 45, the Jaccard index is 4.63% = 45 / (252 + 719).

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