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The Carboniferous (/ ˌ k ɑːr b ə ˈ n ɪ f ər ə s / KAR-bə-NIF-ər-əs) [6] is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period 358.86 Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, 298.9 Ma.
The Mississippian (/ ˌ m ɪ s ɪ ˈ s ɪ p i. ə n / MISS-iss-IP-ee-ən), [5] also known as Lower Carboniferous or Early Carboniferous, is a subperiod in the geologic timescale or a subsystem of the geologic record. It is the earlier of two subperiods of the Carboniferous period lasting from roughly 358.9 to 323.2
The Late Carboniferous a Time of Great Coal Swamps, Paleomap project. World map from this time period. The Carboniferous – 354 to 290 Million Years Ago, University of California Museum of Paleontology. Information on stratigraphies, localities, tectonics, and life. The Pennsylvanian Epoch of the Carboniferous Period: 318 to 299 Mya, Paleos.com
During the Carboniferous Period, Earth's atmospheric oxygen levels surged, helping some plants and animals grow to gigantic proportions. One notable example was Arthropleura, the biggest bug ever ...
Arthropleura remains (body fossils and trackways) are also closely associated with the palaeoequator, with all documented fossils occurring with 10° of either side of the palaeoequator during both the Carboniferous and Permian. [2] A fossil tergite (axial region) of Arthropleura sp. from the Carboniferous of Poland, surrounded by various ...
Fossils of Pulmonoscorpius kirktonensis have been found at the East Kirkton Quarry, West Lothian in Scotland. Rock layers exposed at the quarry date back to the Carboniferous, specifically the Viséan and Serpukhovian stages of the Mississippian (Early Carboniferous) subperiod, around 336.0 – 326.4 million years ago. [1]
It contains the single species Eryops megacephalus, the fossils of which are found mainly in early Permian (about 295 million years ago) rocks of the Texas Red Beds, located in Archer County, Texas. Fossils have also been found in late Carboniferous period rocks from New Mexico.
This genus is known in the fossil records from as early as the Middle Devonian or the Late Carboniferous period [1] but dwindled to extinction in the Early Permian period (age range: from 383.7 to 254.0 million years ago). [2] Fossils are found in Great Britain, United States, Canada, China, Korea, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. [3]