SOLFEGE Dictionary entry overview: What does solfege mean? â¢ SOLFEGE (noun) The noun SOLFEGE has 2 senses: 1. singing using solfa syllables to denote the notes of the scale of C major 2. a voice exercise; singing scales or runs to the same syllable Familiarity information: SOLFEGE used as a noun is rare.
Cretaceous Period: Life. No great extinction or burst of diversity separated the Cretaceous from the Jurassic Period that had preceded it. In some ways, things went on as they had. Dinosaurs both great and small moved through forests of ferns, cycads, and conifers. Ammonites, belemnites, other molluscs, and fish were hunted by great marine reptiles, and pterosaurs and birds flapped and soared in the air above.
View full size image. The Cretaceous Period was the last and longest segment of the Mesozoic Era. It lasted approximately 79 million years, from the minor extinction event that closed the Jurassic Period about 145.5 million years ago to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event dated at 65.5 million years ago.In the early Cretaceous, the continents were in very different positions than they are today.ne of the hallmarks of the Cretaceous Period was the development and radiation of the flowering plants. The oldest angiosperm fossil that has been found to date is Archaefructus liaoningensis, found by Ge Sun and David Dilcher in China.