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Which geologic period followed the Jurassic Period?
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Jurassic Period
Distribution of landmasses, mountainous regions, shallow seas, and deep ocean basins during the late Jurassic Period. Included in the paleogeographic reconstruction are the locations of the interval's subduction zones.
The geologic period that followed the Jurassic Period is the Cretaceous Period.12
Spanning from approximately 145 million to 66 million years ago, the Cretaceous is the final and longest period of the Mesozoic Era. It succeeded the Jurassic Period and concluded with a major mass extinction event that resulted in the demise of the dinosaurs.321