
Thor Arthur Hansen
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LOCATION: Bellingham, WA, United States
Professor of invertebrate paleontology, paleoecology, and evolution, Western Washington University, U.S.
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Cretaceous Period, in geologic time, the last of the three periods of the Mesozoic Era. The Cretaceous began 145.0 million years ago and ended 66 million years ago; it followed the Jurassic Period and was succeeded by the Paleogene Period (the first of the two periods into which the Tertiary Period…
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