Bawdsey - Maastrichtian
Peacehaven - Campanian
Culver Cliff - Santonian
Seven Sisters - Coniacian
Eastbourne -Turonian
Yaverland - Cenomanian
Folkestone - Albian
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Speeton- Aptian
Shepherds Chine- Barremian
Fairlight - Valanginian
Hastings - Berriasian
Durlston Bay - Berriasian
Cretaceous
GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE: Seas flood half the land, Great thickness of
chalk, single-celled animals laid down. Land masses
begin to move towards their present positions. Climate mild without
extremes.
TERRESTRIAL ANIMAL LIFE: Advanced dinosaurs such as duck-bills. Turtles,
snakes,salamanders. Gulls and wading birds. Opossums & other mammals.
All dinosaurs and many other large reptiles extinct by the end of
the period.
PLANT LIFE: Gymnosperms, sequoias and cypresses. Flowering plants appear,
magnolias and oaks.
SEA LIFE: Plankton, coral reefs, rudists, ammonites, calcareous algae.
Marine reptiles and ammonites extinct by the end of the period. |
