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Bookmark or Share- Carboniferous Period - Fossils, Plants, Animals | BritannicaThe Carboniferous was a time of diverse marine invertebrates. The Late Devonian Period experienced major extinctions within some marine invertebrate groups, and Carboniferous faunas reflect a different composition from what had prevailed earlier in the Paleozoic Era.
- Carboniferous Period | Climate, Flora & Fauna | BritannicaCarboniferous Period, fifth interval of the Paleozoic Era, succeeding the Devonian Period and preceding the Permian Period. In terms of absolute time, the Carboniferous Period began approximately 358.9 million years ago and ended 298.9 million years ago.
- Carboniferous Period summary | BritannicaCarboniferous Period, Interval of geologic time 358.9–298.9 million years ago, marked by great changes in world geography. All the landmasses drew closer together as a result of tectonic plate movements. The supercontinent Gondwana occupied much of the Southern Hemisphere.
- The Carboniferous Period - University of California Museum of ...The Carboniferous Period is famous for its vast swamp forests, such as the one depicted here. Such swamps produced the coal from which the term Carboniferous, or "carbon-bearing," is derived. The Carboniferous Period lasted from about 359.2 to 299 million years ago* during the late Paleozoic Era.
- Carboniferous - New World EncyclopediaIn the Carboniferous period—the fifth of six periods making up the Paleozoic era within the Phanerozoic eon—the amniote egg (of a reptile) and also an early ancestor of Conifer trees first appeared. The Carboniferous period lies between the Devonian and the Permian periods.
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