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The Carboniferous (/ˌkɑːrbəˈnɪfərəs/ KAR-bə-NIF-ər-əs) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era that spans 60 million years, from the end of the Devonian Period 358.86 Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, 298.9 Ma. It is the fifth period of the Phanerozoic eon. In North America, the Carboniferous is often treated as…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Carboniferous | Celestial body | Earth | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carboniferous | Chronological unit | Period | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carboniferous | First proposed by | William Daniel Conybeare and William Phillips, 1822 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carboniferous | Lower boundary definition | FAD of the Conodont Siphonodella sulcata (discovered to have biostratigraphic issues as of 2006) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carboniferous | Lower boundary GSSP | La Serre, Montagne Noire, France .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser… | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carboniferous | Lower GSSP ratified | 1990 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carboniferous | Name formality | Formal | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carboniferous | Nickname(s) | Age of Amphibians or Reptiles | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carboniferous | Regional usage | Global (ICS) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carboniferous | Sea level above present day | Falling from 120 m to present-day level throughout the Mississippian, then rising steadily to about 80 m at end of period | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carboniferous | Stratigraphic unit | System | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carboniferous | Time scale(s) used | ICS Time Scale | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carboniferous | Time span formality | Formal | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carboniferous | Upper boundary definition | FAD of the Conodont Streptognathodus isolatus within the morphotype Streptognathodus wabaunsensis chronocline | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carboniferous | Upper boundary GSSP | Aidaralash, Ural Mountains, Kazakhstan 50°14′45″N 57°53′29″E / 50.2458°N 57.8914°E / 50.2458; 57.8914 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carboniferous | Upper GSSP ratified | 1996 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Carboniferous | is a | period during which both terrestrial animal and land plant life was well established | 0.90 | text |
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