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Carboniferous. The Carboniferous (/ ˌkɑːrbəˈnɪfərəs / KAR-bə-NIF-ər-əs) [6] is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period 358.9 Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, 298.9 Ma. In North America, the Carboniferous is often treated as two ...
Diplocaulus (meaning "double stalk") is an extinct genus of lepospondyl amphibians which lived from the Late Carboniferous to the Late Permian of North America and Africa. Diplocaulus is by far the largest and best-known of the lepospondyls, characterized by a distinctive boomerang -shaped skull.
Category: Carboniferous insects. 9 languages. ... Prehistoric insects of the Carboniferous Period, during the Paleozoic Era Subcategories. This category has the ...
Carboniferous animals. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Carboniferous Animalia. Prehistoric animals of the Carboniferous period, during the Paleozoic Era.
e. Reptiles arose about 320 million years ago [1] during the Carboniferous period. Reptiles, in the traditional sense of the term, are defined as animals that have scales or scutes, lay land-based hard-shelled eggs, and possess ectothermic metabolisms. So defined, the group is paraphyletic, excluding endothermic animals like birds that are ...
Arthropleura. Arthropleura (Greek for 'jointed ribs') is a genus of massive millipedes that lived in what is now North America and Europe around 345 to 290 million years ago, [1][2] from the Viséan stage of the lower Carboniferous Period to the Sakmarian stage of the lower Permian Period. [1][3] The species of the genus are the largest known ...
The Permian (/ ˈpɜːrmi.ən / PUR-mee-ən) [4] is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period 298.9 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.902 Mya. It is the last period of the Paleozoic Era; the following Triassic Period belongs to the Mesozoic ...
The Carboniferous rainforest collapse (CRC) was a minor extinction event that occurred around 305 million years ago in the Carboniferous period. [1] The event occurred at the end of the Moscovian and continued into the early Kasimovian stages of the Pennsylvanian (Upper Carboniferous). It altered the vast coal forests that covered the ...