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Cretaceous |
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Cretaceous Adjective Geol of the period of geological time about 135 million years ago, at the end of which the dinosaurs died out [Latin creta chalk]
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| It may be that he swept back into the past, and fell among the blood-drinking, hairy savages of the Age of Unpolished Stone; into the abysses of the Cretaceous Sea; or among the grotesque saurians, the huge reptilian brutes of the Jurassic times. Flintcomb-Ash being in the middle of the cretaceous tableland over which no railway had climbed as yet, it would be necessary to walk. |
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