The Cretaceous Period

The period began for about 144 million years ago and ended for 65 million years ago. This was the last age of the dinosaurs and the last period in Mesozoikum (the earth’s middle age). The continent in the cretaceous period was almost like the ones we have today. Especially Antarctica and North and South America were near the continents we know today. Collapse between the continents made mountains all over the world (for example: The Rocky Mountains were made this way in the Cretaceous period). Near Equator it was still very hot, but it got drier and the woods were thinning out. This was also the time were the first flowers grow up of the ground. Because the dinosaurs were trapped into different kinds of continents they evolved faster, and because of that the Cretacerous period had a lot of dinosaurs.

Geography: At the beginning North America and Asia were connected, so you could go from eastern North America to the western Asia this was called Asiamerica. Later a sea split them a part and then they were on their own. A different sea was splitting up Euramerica (North America, Greenland and Europe) so Europe was taking its place. All the other continents (Africa, Antarctica, India, South America and Australia) were slowly flooding away from each other.