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Earth Science Quiz Answer to when dinosaurs lived

 

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The "age of dinosaurs" (the Mesozoic Era) included three consecutive geologic time periods (the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods).

To learn more about geologic time, go to one of these online publications:
Fossils, Rocks, and Time
Geologic Time

To learn more about dinosaurs, go to Dinosaurs: Facts and Fiction.

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