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Carboniferous

Also known as Carboniferous System, Carboniferous Period

The Carboniferous ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era that spans 60 million years, from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, Ma. It is the fifth period of the Phanerozoic eon. In North America, the Carboniferous is often treated as two separate geological periods, the earlier Mississippian and the later Pennsylvanian.

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The Carboniferous is a geologic period that lasted 60 million years during the Paleozoic era, situated between the Devonian and Permian periods. It matters as a major division of Earth's history and is sometimes split into two periods in North America called the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian.

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Geologic timespan.name: Carboniferous
Geologic timespan.color: Carboniferous
Geologic timespan.time_start: 358.86
Geologic timespan.time_start_uncertainty: 0.19
Geologic timespan.time_end: 298.9
Geologic timespan.time_end_uncertainty: 0.15
Geologic timespan.image_map: Mollweide Paleographic Map of Earth, 330 Ma (Serpukhovian Age).png
Geologic timespan.caption_map: A map of Earth as it appeared 330 million years ago during the Carboniferous Period, Mississippian Subperiod
Geologic timespan.timeline: Carboniferous
Geologic timespan.name_formality: Formal
Geologic timespan.nicknames: Age of Amphibians
Geologic timespan.celestial_body: earth
Geologic timespan.usage: Global (ICS)
Geologic timespan.timescales_used: ICS Time Scale
Geologic timespan.chrono_unit: Period
Geologic timespan.strat_unit: System
Geologic timespan.proposed_by: William Daniel Conybeare and William Phillips, 1822
Geologic timespan.timespan_formality: Formal

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Commons category: Carboniferous
sRGB color hex triplet: 67A599
start time: 358900000-
end time: 298900000-
IPA transcription: /ˌkɑːrbəˈnɪfərəs/

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Etymology and history
Geology
Stratigraphy
Mississippian
Pennsylvanian
Cyclothems
Coal formation
Palaeogeography
Variscan-Alleghanian-Ouachita orogeny
Uralian orogeny
Laurussia
Gondwana
Siberia and Amuria
Central and East Asia
Climate
Temperatures
Atmospheric oxygen levels
Effects of climate on sedimentation
Effects of climate on biodiversity
Geochemistry
Magnesium/calcium isotope ratios in seawater
Strontium isotopic composition of seawater
Oxygen and carbon isotope ratios in seawater
Life
Plants
Marine invertebrates
Freshwater and lagoonal invertebrates
Terrestrial invertebrates
Fish
Tetrapods
Fungi
Extinction events
Romer's gap
Carboniferous rainforest collapse
See also
References
Sources
External links

The name Carboniferous means "coal-bearing", from the Latin ("coal") and ("bear, carry"), and refers to the many coal beds formed globally during that time. The first of the modern "system" names, it was coined by geologists William Conybeare and William Phillips in 1822, based on a study of the British rock succession.

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