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Prehistoric animals of the Carboniferous period, during the Paleozoic Era See also the preceding Category:Devonian animals and the succeeding Category:Permian animals Subcategories
Carboniferous animals of the Carboniferous Period in North America, during the Paleozoic Era See also the preceding Category:Devonian animals of North America and the succeeding Category:Permian animals of North America
Carboniferous tetrapods include amphibians and reptiles that lived during the Carboniferous Period. Though stem-tetrapods originated in the preceding Devonian , it was in the earliest Carboniferous that the first crown tetrapods appeared, with full scaleless skin and five digits.
This is a list of North American mammals. It includes all mammals currently found in the United States, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Canada, Greenland, Bermuda, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean region, whether resident or as migrants. This article does not include species found only in captivity.
Carboniferous Russia Aisenverg, 1979 Chesterian: 333 318.1 age Carboniferous North America Worthen, 1860 Chewtonian: 473 471 age Ordovician Australia Harris & Thomas, 1938 Chokierian: 325 324.5 sub-age Carboniferous regional Chokier, Belgium Hodson (1957) Cincinnatian: 451 443.7 ± 1.5 epoch Ordovician North America Cincinnati: Meek & Worthen, 1865
The synapsid lineage became distinct from the sauropsid lineage in the late Carboniferous period, between 320 and 315 million years ago. [2] The only living synapsids are mammals, [3] while the sauropsids gave rise to the dinosaurs, and today's reptiles and birds along with all the extinct amniotes more closely related to them than to mammals. [2]
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 bats' most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals capable of flight. Bat species account for about 20% of all mammals. Family: Vespertilionidae. Subfamily: Myotinae. Silver-haired bat, L. noctivagans [n 3] LC; Southwestern myotis, M. auriculus [n 1] [n 21] LC