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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 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
List of eurypterid genera; List of mosasaur genera; List of prehistoric annelid genera; List of prehistoric barnacles; List of prehistoric brittle stars; List of prehistoric bryozoan genera; List of prehistoric chitons; List of prehistoric foraminifera genera; List of ichthyosaur genera; List of marine gastropod genera in the fossil record ...
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 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.
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]
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.
Subdivision of the Carboniferous according to the ICS, as of 2023. [1] Vertical axis scale: Millions of years ago. References