What evidence do we have for the cause of the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous?
What were two results of this extinction event?
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At the end of the Cretaceous period there was a massive reduction in species diversity. It was during this period transition that the dinosaurs became extinct. Other species that died out during this transition include pterosaurs, belemnoids, many species of plants ...
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Short paragraph exmaning the evidence for the mass extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous and the results of it. Web references included.
... species; impact (Manicouagan Crater); flood basalts (Central Atlantic) 5. End Cretaceous (65 Ma ... increases very gradually, we can expect mass extinction to result ...
... Evidence of the KT mass extinction comes from comparing fossils found at the end of the Cretaceous period to those found at the beginning of the Tertiary ...
... marine Pangaea, by the predators end of the ... as the Age Reptiles, and more extinction event of ... the of Mammals dominant Cretaceous terrestrial Paleogene ...
... radiation enough to cause global cooling; such a scenario has been invoked to explain the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the Cretaceous period. ...
... 145 MYA (Mesozoic Era: Cretaceous Period)- Angiosperms diversify, dinosaurs diversify through Period, followed by mass extinction event at end of Period (.65 ...
