Cretaceous Friends

Cretaceous Friends

This is a simple drawing for younger children to color.  The animals are a Sauropod or long neck dinosaur, a Pteranodon  which is a type of flying reptile,  and a Cretaceous Period mammal called Ameridelphia.  It lived in North America.  This is a cartoonish drawing so maybe I'll draw Ameridelphia later in a more accurate way.  The main identifiable index animal or index fossil animal that tells you this is a Cretaceous Period scene is the Pteranodon.  That type of Pterosaur lived only in the Cretaceous Period.  The flowers on the bush are there because recent evidence shows flowering plants evolving way before previously thought.  Some biologists think we could put dinosaurs into their own class so if that were done. . . there would be pictured here:  Class:  Dinosauria,   Class:  Reptilia,   and Class:  Mammalia.