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  • Cretaceous paleogeography
    In Cretaceous Period: Major subdivisions of the Cretaceous System

    …Le Mans, France, as the type area. The Cenomanian Age is the interval of time that corresponds to the rocks, sediments, and fossils described in the type area for the Cenomanian Stage. For the Lower Cretaceous Series the stages are the Berriasian, Valanginian, Hauterivian, Barremian, Aptian, and Albian.

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