Synonyms for cretaceous
krɪˈteɪ ʃəscre·ta·ceous

Princeton's WordNet

1. Cretaceous, Cretaceous periodadjective

   from 135 million to 63 million years ago; end of the age of reptiles; appearance of modern insects and flowering plants

2. cretaceousadjective

   abounding in chalk

3. Cretaceousadjective

   of or relating to or denoting the third period of the Mesozoic era

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1. cretaceousadjective

   Synonyms:
   chalky

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1. Sebastian Apesteguia:

   This print is bigger than any other we have found to date in the area, it is a record in size for carnivorous dinosaurs from the end of the Cretaceous period in South America.

2. Jeremy Lockwood:

   Brighstoneus shows that there was greater diversity in the Lower Cretaceous iguanodontians than we realized.

3. Adam Huttenlocker:

   For a long time, we thought early mammals from the Cretaceous (145 to 66 million years ago) were anatomically similar and not ecologically diverse, this finding by our team and others reinforce that, even before the rise of modern mammals, ancient relatives of mammals were exploring specialty niches: insectivores, herbivores, carnivores, swimmers, gliders.

4. Peter Makovicky:

   Gualicho would likely not have been something you'd want to meet on a lonely, dark Cretaceous night, with Mapusaurus probably preying on large sauropods (the group that included Argentinosaurus), Gualicho likely focused on smaller prey: a category a human lost in the Cretaceous would fit into.

5. Zoltan Csiki-Sava:

   Data collection concerning end-Cretaceous dinosaurs happened to start at about the same time in both Europe and North America – around the middle of the 19th century, it is only by chance (a combination between mainly better rock availability and more human effort poured into this line of research) that the North American fossil record grew more rapidly and soon become the best one in the world for that particular time period. As such, it captured attention and was used as a template to understand end-Cretaceous extinction. The data was harder to gather in other continents, including Europe, and the resolution of the European fossil record is still far from that coming from North America. But its growth is spectacular (we know probably twice as much about late Cretaceous fossil vertebrates from Europe then we knew like 20 years ago), and that is due to the activity of a large number of mainly young researchers working all across Europe.