Vertebrate Fauna Of The Maastrichtian Stage
This is an incomplete list that briefly describes vertebrates that were extant during the Maastrichtian, a stage of the Late Cretaceous Period which extended from 70.6 to 65.5 million years before present. This was the last time period in which non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs existed.
Read more about Vertebrate Fauna Of The Maastrichtian Stage: Amphibians, †Ankylosaurs, Birds, Cartilaginous Fish, †Ceratopsians, Crocodilians, Bony Fish, Mammals, †Ornithopoda, †Pachycephalosaurs, †Plesiosaurs, †Pterosaurs, †Sauropods, Squamates, †Non-Avian Theropods, Turtles
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