Flora and fauna of the Maastrichtian stage
- Flora and fauna of the Maastrichtian stage
This is an incomplete list that briefly describes all known organisms that were extant during the Maastrichtian, a stage of the Late Cretaceous Period which extended from 72 to 65 million years [before present] . This was the last time period in which non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs existed.
Vertebrate fauna
†Ankylosaurs
†Ceratopsians
Mammals
†Plesiosaurs
Squamates
Invertebrate fauna
Flora
*"Metasequoia"
References
See also
* List of fossil sites "(with link directory)"
* Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event
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