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The Carboniferous Period lasted from 359 to 299 mya (million years ago)

It got its name from its coal deposits and coal-producing forests.

Fast Facts about the Carboniferous Period

Here are some basic facts about the Carboniferous Period. If you want to learn more facts explained in depth, then click        to learn more about the Mississippian Period and click        to learn more about the Pennsylvanian Period.

 

  • The Carboniferous Period is split into two sub-periods, the Mississippian Period and the Pennsylvanian Period

  • The Carboniferous Period lasted from 359 to 299 million years ago

  • The Carboniferous Period got its name from its many coal-forming forests and underground coal deposits during that time

  • Many amphibians walked the earth during this period

  • The earliest vascular plants covered the earth, making the land swampy and marshy

  • The Carboniferous Period had the earliest reptiles

  • The Carboniferous Period was formed from the prehistoric vegetation

  • The Mississippian Period lasted from 359.2 million to 318.1 million years ago

  • The Pennsylvanian Period lasted from 318.1 million to 299 million years ago

  • There was a surplus of oxygen during the Carboniferous Period, about 35% oxygen, so animals were much larger than they were today

  • One of the greatest evolutionary developments in the Carboniferous is the amniote egg, allowing animals to lay eggs on land

  • Types of fossils that could be found during this period: Trilobites, Nautiloids, Ammonoids, Crinoids, Graptolites, Eurypterids, Vascular plants, Corals, Gastropods, Brachiopods

  • Thicker atmosphere

  • Greater coriolis effect

  • Stronger winds

  • Earth's rotation was faster-22.4 hour rotation

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