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Carboniferous

[ kahr-buh-nif-er-uhs ]

adjective

  1. noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era, including the Pennsylvanian and Mississippian periods as epochs, occurring from 345 million to 280 million years ago.
  2. (lowercase) producing carbon or coal.


noun

  1. the Carboniferous Period or System.

Carboniferous

1

/ 藢办蓱藧产蓹藞苍瑟蹿蓹谤蓹蝉 /

adjective

  1. of, denoting, or formed in the fifth period of the Palaeozoic era, between the Devonian and Permian periods, lasting for nearly 64 million years during which coal measures were formed
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. the Carboniferous
    the Carboniferous period or rock system
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

carboniferous

2

/ 藢办蓱藧产蓹藞苍瑟蹿蓹谤蓹蝉 /

adjective

  1. yielding coal or carbon
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Carboniferous

  1. The period of geologic time from about 360 to 286 million years ago. The term is used throughout the world, although this period of time has been separated into the Mississippian (lower Carboniferous) and Pennsylvanian (upper Carboniferous) in the United States. During this time, widespread swamps formed in which plant remains accumulated and later hardened into coal.
  2. See Chart at geologic time
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 辫辞蝉迟顎-颁补谤路产辞苍路颈蹿顎侥谤路辞耻蝉 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of Carboniferous1

1790鈥1800; < Latin 肠补谤产艒苍- (stem of 肠补谤产艒 ) coal + -i- + -ferous
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More than 300 million years ago, all sorts of arachnids crawled around the Carboniferous coal forests of North America and Europe.

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The fossil was identified as a temnospondyl, a predecessor to modern amphibians that survived over a 200 million year duration spanning from the Carboniferous to the Triassic periods.

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The researchers identified the fossil as a temnospondyl, a diverse group of primitive amphibian relatives that lived for over 200 million years from the Carboniferous to the Triassic periods.

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The ferns of the genus Danaea represent a very old evolutionary line, already differentiated from other plants in the Carboniferous Period.

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It means that plant life in the Early Carboniferous period was more complex than expected, suggesting Sanfordiacaulis lived at a time when plants were "experimenting" with a variety of possible forms or architectures.

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