Western Interior Sea

Lazio regione west central italy fronting the tyrrhenian sea and comprising the provinces of roma frosinone latina rieti and viterbo.

Western interior sea. It covers what today is the great prairies. The western interior seaway was among the largest continental seas of all time stretching from utah in the west to the western appalachians in the east a total of about 1000 km 621 mi wide. In the east lazio is dominated by the reatini sabini simbruini and ernici ranges of the central apennines rising to 7 270 feet 2 216 m at mount.

The western interior seaway was a huge inland sea. A sea bird that lives next on the sea is the hesperornis. The western interior seaway also called the cretaceous seaway the niobraran sea and the north american inland sea was a huge inland sea that split the continent of north america into two halves during most of the mid and late cretaceous period.

It split north america into two halves for most of the mid and late cretaceous period. The western interior seaway also called the cretaceous seaway the niobraran sea and the north american inland sea was a huge inland sea that split the continent of north america into two halves laramidia and appalachia during most of the mid and late cretaceous period. The western interior seaway also called the cretaceous seaway the niobraran sea the north american inland sea and the western interior sea was a large inland sea that existed during the mid to late cretaceous period as well as the very early paleogene splitting the continent of north america into two landmasses laramidia to the west and appalachia to the east.

It was up to 2 500 feet 760 m deep 600 miles 970 km wide and over 2 000 miles 3 200 km long. Origins and geology the seaway was created as. A common flying creatures is pteranodons.

Western interior sea is a large in land that split north america from east and west. Climate change likely dried up the interior seaway and held its waters frozen in the poles. The western interior seaway lasted for about 60 million years longer than the human species but all things must come to an end and the last we saw of the seaway was 70 million years ago.

Its deepest point was only about 800 or 900 meters about half a mile underwater relatively shallow for a sea. It was home cretoxyrhina elasmosaurus and archelon.