Animaux et plantes de période honillöre en Europe..
Coal bearing period... The Carboniferous Period lasted from about 359.2 to 299 million years ago.
The Mississippian. The Carboniferous Period is formally divided into two major sub periods —.
The Mississippian. Major events happened in the Mississippian period.
The presence of extensive, lush, swampy forests characterizes the Pennsylvanian Period..
Land animals included primitive amphibians, One of the earliest was the lizard-like Hylonomus . Spiders, millipedes, land snails, scorpions, enormous dragonflies, and more than 800kinds of cockroaches ..
#Plants. Carboniferous terrestrial environments were dominated by vascular land plants ranging from small, shrubby growths to trees exceeding heights of 100 feet (30 meters ). The most important groups were the lycopods , sphenopsids, cordaites , seed ferns, and true ferns .Ferns and sphenopsids became more important later during the Carboniferous..
The later half of the period experienced glaciations, low sea level, and mountain building as the continents collided to form Pangaea. A minor marine and terrestrial extinction event, the Carboniferous rainforest collapse, occurred at the.