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The Carboniferous period is an interval of about 60 million years ... the Latin word for coal, carbo, and Carboniferous means "coal-bearing ...

Ferns are among the oldest land plants, dating back to the Carboniferous ... Ferns first appear in the fossil record in the early-Carboniferous ...

Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, and Permian. Geologically ... ==== Carboniferous Period ==== Carboniferous The Carboniferous extends ...

320 million years ago (mya) from the Carboniferous period (359 mya to about ... extinct cockroach relatives such as the Carboniferous Archimylacris and the ...

Piddock. These animals, found boring into carboniferous rocks (such as the limestone cliffs of Flamborough Head) bore themselves further into the cliff-face. ...

The oldest opthopteran fossils trace to the Carboniferous period; most families of Ensifera appeared between the early Jurassic and early Triassic ...

#039;s terrestrial environment. During the Carboniferous period, fungi and bacteria had yet to evolve the capacity to digest lignin, and so large deposits ...

become dominant in freshwaters until the Carboniferous (360 million years ago), when they started to invade the seas (Jonna 2004). ...

* Reptiliomorpha: Early Carboniferous period "mammal-like reptiles"): late Carboniferous period to very early ...

Reefs from both the Silurian and Carboniferous periods have been recorded ... those found in the limestones of the Carboniferous period. ...

deposits, coal deposits from the Carboniferous, and in amber. They are ... them off as a group distinct from their Carboniferous and recent relatives ...

Svante Arrhenius's prediction of a steamy carboniferous swamp upon which the rain dripped incessantly. It probably inspired Henry Kuttner to the ...

weather than today. With the coming of the Carboniferous, global cooling stoked extensive glaciation, which spread northwards from South Africa towards ...

about 300 million years ago during the late Carboniferous period. Diapsids possess a pair of holes in their skulls behind the eyes, along with a second ...