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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
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.
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
Index fossils must have a short vertical range, wide geographic distribution and rapid evolutionary trends. Another term, "zone fossil", is used when the fossil has all the characters stated above except wide geographical distribution; thus, they correlate the surrounding rock to a biozone rather than a specific time period.
Carboniferous vertebrates of North America (3 C) Pages in category "Carboniferous animals of North America" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
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.
The Carboniferous period, the geologic time between 358.9 and 298.9 million years ago, during the Paleozoic Era Subcategories. This category has the following 13 ...