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Cetaceous vs Cretaceous - What's the difference?

cetaceous | cretaceous |

As adjectives the difference between cetaceous and cretaceous

is that cetaceous is relating to whales or more generally to any marine mammal of the order Cetacea while cretaceous is of or relating to chalk.

As a proper noun Cretaceous is

the geologic period within the Mesozoic era that comprises lower and upper epochs from about 146 to 65 million years ago.

cetaceous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relating to whales or more generally to any marine mammal of the order Cetacea.

    • cretaceous

    English

    (wikipedia Cretaceous)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (geology) The geologic period within the Mesozoic era that comprises lower and upper epochs from about 146 to 65 million years ago
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    • As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.

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