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How long was the Cretaceous period?
approximately 79 million years
The Cretaceous Period was the last and longest segment of the Mesozoic Era. It lasted approximately 79 million years, from the minor extinction event that closed the Jurassic Period about 145 million years ago to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event dated at 66 million years ago.
What period is 62 million years ago?
The Cretaceous ( /krəˈteɪʃəs/ krə-TAY-shəs) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).
What era ended 65 million years ago?
Cretaceous-
Cretaceous-tertiary Extinction: 65 Million Years Ago Scientists refer to the major extinction that wiped out nonavian dinosaurs as the K-T extinction, because it happened at the end of the Cretaceous period and the beginning of the Tertiary period.
What was Earth like 70 million years ago?
70 million years ago, the Earth turned faster than it does today, rotating 372 times a year compared with the current 365, according to an analysis of an ancient fossil mollusk shell from the late Cretaceous period. This means a day lasted about 23½ hours.
What time period was 600 million years ago?
Ediacaran Period
The Ediacaran Period lasted about 50 million years, from 600 million years ago to about 542 million years ago. It was the last period of the Precambrian’s Neoproterozoic Era. Multicelled organisms first appeared during this time. This period is the first new one added in 120 years.
What time period was 500000 years ago?
The Geologic Time Scale
| Simplified Geologic Time Scale | ||
|---|---|---|
| Era | Period or System | Epoch or Series |
| Paleozoic (570 – 250 million years ago) | Ordovician (500 – 425 million years ago) | Middle |
| Early or Lower | ||
| Cambrian (570 – 500 million years ago) | Late or Upper |
How long was a day a million years ago?
23.5 hours
A day on Earth was just 23.5 hours long, 70 million years ago. Researchers discovered this by studying the growth rings of ancient mollusk fossils.
Were there any dinosaurs 70 million years ago?
Ankylosaurus, (genus Ankylosaurus), armoured ornithischian dinosaurs that lived 70 million to 66 million years ago in North America during the Late Cretaceous Period. Its fossil remains are found in North America and Europe.