Santonian

Santonian

The Santonian is a faunal stageCite web | url=http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Education/britstrat/timecharts/CRETAC/cretac.html | title=BGS Geological Timechart - Cretaceous | accessdate=2008-03-22 | publisher=British Geological Survey] of the Late Cretaceous Epoch. It spans the time between 85.8 ± 0.7 mya (million years ago) and 83.5 ± 0.7 mya.Cite web | url=http://www.stratigraphy.org/geowhen/stages/Barremian.html | title=GeoWhen Database - Barremian | accessdate=2007-12-02|quote=Version 1.1.0.]

According to the ICS, its start is defied by the appearance of the inoceramid bivalve "Cladoceramus undulatoplicatus". Its end is marked by the extinction of the crinoid "Marsupites testudinarius".

Vertebrate Fauna

†Ankylosaurs

†Ceratopsians

†Ornithopods

quamates

†Theropods (non-avian)

Flora

Magnoliopsida

Advanced dicotyledons
* Droseraceae: †"Palaeoaldrovanda"

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