Question

What butterflies were in a cretaceous period?

Answer 1

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/allabout/
this may help.. gotta go through a lot in it though

Answer 2

Some researchers think that butterflies first appeared in the cretaceous period. Others think they appeared in the Tertiary age... Although I'm pretty sure that the cretaceous period theory of origin is widely accepted...

Answer 3

Well in her last question we figured out that they were from then.. this one is to just figure out which ones were from it.

Answer 4

@stormgirl47

Answer 5

oh ok whoops! :) I'm afraid I'm not sure which specific butterflies were from that period ...

Answer 6

Hold on! Nymphalid butterflies appeared at that time:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2817107/

Also, this source says that "all the basic families of butterflies had already evolved ... by the end of the Cretaceous Period"
http://books.google.com/books?id=KFSBLFmLnKQC&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=which+butterflies+originated+during+the+cretaceous+period&source=bl&ots=gr_oF0vdZ6&sig=O76QqzjK3VqSXVa4O6Aq8dYwgIY&hl=fr&sa=X&ei=p-1_UuGtO8_54AOi6YHIDA&ved=0CGcQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=which%20butterflies%20originated%20during%20the%20cretaceous%20period&f=false

Answer 7

not sure if that helps :)