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Lower Carboniferous

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Lower Carboniferous
n.
See Mississippian.
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Noun1.Lower Carboniferous - from 345 million to 310 million years ago; increase of land areas; primitive ammonites; winged insects
Lower Carboniferous period, Missippian period, Mississippian
Carboniferous, Carboniferous period - from 345 million to 280 million years ago


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The Lower Carboniferous period, lasting from 360 million to 320 million years ago, saw many important evolutionary changes in reptiles, amphibians and arthropods.
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Wood's Fossils in West Lothian, Scotland, and co-workers at The University at Newcastle upon Tyne discovered amphibian, arthropod and plant fossils in the Lower Carboniferous (320 to 360 million years ago) layers of the East Kirkton Limestone in Scotland.
A fossil find: early land amphibians by Science News
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