Middle Cretaceous

The Middle Cretaceous is the second part of the Cretaceous, and likely has hosted a variety of dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs featured

This period has had a full collection of dinosaurs. Some of the most common plant-eaters of this timeline had to watch out for meat-eaters.


Species	Relative	Friends	Predators
Argentinosaurus	Apatosaurus	Others of its species	Giganotosaurus and Skorpiovenator
Skorpiovenator	Carnotaurus	None	None
Carcharodontosaurus	Giganotosaurus	None	None
Centrosaurus	Monoclonius	Others of its species	Daspletosaurus
Daspletosaurus	Eotyrannus	Probably not	Rivals of the species
Chasmosaurus	Eoceratops	Probably any	Tyrannosaurus and Daspletosaurus
Ouranosaurus	Bactrosaurus	Others of its species	Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, Carcharodontosaurus saharicus and Sarcosuchus
Rugops	Abelisaurus	None	Probably not
Spinosaurus	Suchosaurus	None	Rivals of other carnivorous species

The impact of a meteorite or comet is today widely accepted as the main reason for the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
Scipionyx, a theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Italy
Map of North America During the Late Cretaceous
A computer-simulated model of surface conditions in Middle Cretaceous, 100 mya, displaying the approximate shoreline and calculated isotherms
Facsimile of a fossil of Archaefructus from the Yixian Formation, China
Fossil Jaguariba wiersemana specimen in the collection of the Natural History Museum, Berlin, Germany
Skeleton of Priosphenodon avelasi a large herbivorous rhynchocephalian known from the mid-Cretaceous of South America
Philydrosaurus, a choristodere from the Early Cretaceous of China
Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the largest land predators of all time, lived during the Late Cretaceous