USB Type-A. Known as your standard-A, a USB Type-A is the first original design for a USB port that has a flat and rectangular shape. It is mainly used to connect and control other USB devices such as saving data on external storage devices and using a mouse and keyboard.
Cretaceous Period. The Cretaceous period began at the end of the Jurassic period approximately 144 million years ago and extended longer than any period (79 ma) to approximately 65 million years ago. The word Cretaceous comes from the word for chalk and the geological remains do indeed contain heightened chalk deposits.
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.