Cretaceous

Summary

Cretaceous is a period^[1]. Cretaceous ranks in the top 3% of period entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,921 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Cretaceous's image is recorded as Mollweide Paleographic Map of Earth, 105 Ma (Albian Age).png^[3].
• Cretaceous's image is recorded as Caspar David Friedrich's Chalk Cliffs on Rügen.jpg^[4].
• Cretaceous's instance of is recorded as period^[5].
• Cretaceous's instance of is recorded as system^[6].
• chalk is named after Cretaceous^[7].
• Cretaceous's follows is recorded as Jurassic^[8].
• Cretaceous's followed by is recorded as Paleogene^[9].
• Cretaceous's GND ID is recorded as 4135819-3^[10].
• Cretaceous's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85097127^[11].
• Cretaceous's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85054092^[12].
• Cretaceous's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11975339c^[13].
• Cretaceous's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00562851^[14].
• Cretaceous's part of is recorded as Mesozoic^[15].
• Cretaceous's part of is recorded as ICS Standard Global Chronostratigraphic (Geochronologic) Scale^[16].
• Cretaceous's Commons category is recorded as Cretaceous^[17].
• Cretaceous's sRGB color hex triplet is recorded as 7FC64E^[18].
• Cretaceous's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 30512^[19].
• Cretaceous's has part is recorded as Early Cretaceous^[20].
• Cretaceous's has part is recorded as Late Cretaceous^[21].
• Cretaceous's start time is recorded as -145000000-00-00T00:00:00Z^[22].
• Cretaceous's end time is recorded as -66000000-00-00T00:00:00Z^[23].
• Cretaceous's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01pt4^[24].
• Cretaceous's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph124941^[25].
• Cretaceous's significant event is recorded as Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction^[26].
• Cretaceous's IPA transcription is recorded as /krɪˈteɪʃəs/^[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for Cretaceous include Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction^[28], an extinction event^[29].

Why It Matters

Cretaceous ranks in the top 3% of period entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,921 views/month).^[2] Cretaceous has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[30] Cretaceous is known by 69 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[31]

Entities named for Cretaceous include Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction^[28], an extinction event^[29].