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Qué (quién) es Upper Carboniferous - definición

SECOND SUBPERIOD OF THE CARBONIFEROUS
Pennsylvanian Period; Early Pennsylvanian; Middle Pennsylvanian; Late Pennsylvanian; Lower Pennsylvanian; Pennsylvanian period; Late Carboniferous; Upper Carboniferous; The Pennsylvanian Period; Pennsylvanian Epoch; Pennsylvanian epoch
  • Generalized geographic map of the United States in middle Pennsylvanian time

Carboniferous         
FIFTH PERIOD OF THE PALEOZOIC ERA
Carboniferous Period; Carboniferous System; Carboniferous period; Carboniferous era; Carboniferous Era; Coal age; The Carboniferous; The Carboniferous Period; Carboniferous plants; Carboniferous rock; Carboniferous climate; Carboniferous Peirod; Climate of the Carboniferous; Carboniferous-Earliest Permian Biodiversification Event

The Carboniferous ( KAHR-bə-NIF-ər-əs) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period 358.9 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, 298.9 million years ago. The name Carboniferous means "coal-bearing", from the Latin carbō ("coal") and ferō ("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. The Carboniferous is often treated in North America as two geological periods, the earlier Mississippian and the later Pennsylvanian.

Terrestrial animal life was well established by the Carboniferous Period. Tetrapods (four limbed vertebrates), which had originated from lobe-finned fish during the preceding Devonian, became pentadactylous in and diversified during the Carboniferous, including early amphibian lineages such as temnospondyls, with the first appearance of amniotes, including synapsids (the group to which modern mammals belong) and reptiles during the late Carboniferous. The period is sometimes called the Age of Amphibians, during which amphibians became dominant land vertebrates and diversified into many forms including lizard-like, snake-like, and crocodile-like.

Insects would undergo a major radiation during the late Carboniferous. Vast swaths of forest covered the land, which would eventually be laid down and become the coal beds characteristic of the Carboniferous stratigraphy evident today.

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 end of the period, caused by climate change.

Carboniferous         
FIFTH PERIOD OF THE PALEOZOIC ERA
Carboniferous Period; Carboniferous System; Carboniferous period; Carboniferous era; Carboniferous Era; Coal age; The Carboniferous; The Carboniferous Period; Carboniferous plants; Carboniferous rock; Carboniferous climate; Carboniferous Peirod; Climate of the Carboniferous; Carboniferous-Earliest Permian Biodiversification Event
·adj Producing or containing carbon or coal.
Carboniferous         
FIFTH PERIOD OF THE PALEOZOIC ERA
Carboniferous Period; Carboniferous System; Carboniferous period; Carboniferous era; Carboniferous Era; Coal age; The Carboniferous; The Carboniferous Period; Carboniferous plants; Carboniferous rock; Carboniferous climate; Carboniferous Peirod; Climate of the Carboniferous; Carboniferous-Earliest Permian Biodiversification Event
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¦ adjective Geology relating to or denoting the fifth period of the Palaeozoic era (between the Devonian and Permian periods, about 363 to 290 million years ago), a time when extensive coal-bearing strata were formed.

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Pennsylvanian (geology)

The Pennsylvanian ( pen-səl-VAYN-i-ən, also known as Upper Carboniferous or Late Carboniferous) is, in the ICS geologic timescale, the younger of two subperiods (or upper of two subsystems) of the Carboniferous Period. It lasted from roughly 323.2 million years ago to 298.9 million years ago. As with most other geochronologic units, the rock beds that define the Pennsylvanian are well identified, but the exact date of the start and end are uncertain by a few hundred thousand years. The Pennsylvanian is named after the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, where the coal-productive beds of this age are widespread.

The division between Pennsylvanian and Mississippian comes from North American stratigraphy. In North America, where the early Carboniferous beds are primarily marine limestones, the Pennsylvanian was in the past treated as a full-fledged geologic period between the Mississippian and the Permian. In parts of Europe, the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian are one more-or-less continuous sequence of lowland continental deposits and are grouped together as the Carboniferous Period. The current internationally used geologic timescale of the ICS gives the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian the rank of subperiods, subdivisions of the Carboniferous Period.