"end-Cretaceous" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1988, Rona M Black, The Elements of Palaeontology, page 93",
          "text": "Towards the end of the Cretaceous diversity declined sharply and only a few widespread genera are found in the uppermost beds, these finally disappearing in the end-Cretaceous extinctions.",
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          "ref": "2007, Clarence A Hall Jr., Introduction to the Geology of Southern California and Its Native Plants, page 100",
          "text": "Although the end-Cretaceous bolide impact is contemporaneous with the abrupt end of the reign of dinosaurs, early mammals survived the catastrophic event […].",
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          "ref": "2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 187",
          "text": "The end Cretaceous catastrophe that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago did for these animals too and the oceans were quieter for a while, but within fifteen million years or so the ancestors of dolphins and whales were exploiting the rich seas of the Eocene.",
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        "(geology, paleontology) Pertaining to the end of the Cretaceous period, marked by a major extinction event."
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