2. CRETACEOUS PERIOD FACTS Find out more facts about the Cretaceous period

3. LANDSCAPE AND CLIMATE Warm and dry climate. The super continent Pangaea was drifting apart. The Tethys Ocean separated the northern Laurasia and southern Gondwana.

4. ANIMALS Birds, fish, lizards, snakes, snails, clams, insects, mammals.

5. PLANTS AND VEGETATION Flowering plants started to appear, black pepper plant,thought to be 122 million years old.

6. BREEDS OF DINOSAURS T-rex, Ankylosaurus, Gigantosaurus, Hadrosaurus, Megaraptor, Orinthomimus, Seismosaurus, Triceratops, Troodon.

7. ANKLYOSAURUS Bony plates on back, spikes, heavy club on the end of tail. 20.5 feet long, 4.9 feet wide, 5.6 tall, 4 tons It ate low lying plants Triangular skull, narrow beak

8. TRICERATOPS Bulky – like a rhino Bony neck frill,parrot like beak,cheek teeth Walked on four sturdy legs Three horns on face Scales

9. T-REX T-rex was ”King of all the dinosaurs” Huge head Arms couldn’t reach it’s own head

10. END OF CRETACEOUS PERIOD ended  The dinosaurs ended with a huge meteorite hitting the earth dinosaurs in cretaceous period