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The dinosaurs roamed the earth for more than 150 million years. The Mesozoic Era, lasting from about 252 MYA to 66 MYA, marks the time of the dinosaurs (i.e. archosaurian reptiles). Many other species that still exist in some form today, like conifers and ferns, also found prominence d...
Continental sedimentary volcanic and sedimentary deposits contain abundant flora and fauna including non-marine mollusks, ostracods, clam shrimps, insects, fishes, and dinosaurs. The Lower Cretaceous Turga Formation characterized by a fossil assemblage including Eosestheria middendorfi, Ephemeropsis trise...
Physical geology is the study of current geological events and complements historical geology, which focuses on preserved geological evidence such as the fossils of dinosaurs. Learn the differences between these two significant branches of geology and when both are needed for a solution. ...
The latest of these biotic crises, the Cretaceous – Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary 66 million years ago (MYA)5, is well known due to the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs6,7. There is a growing body of evidence that the composition of contemporary biodiversity has been significantly shaped by ...