Dominated by carbon-rich swamps and forests proliferating across Earth's rocky surface, the Carboniferous period saw a boost ...

Carboniferous SwampCharacteristic of the Carboniferous period (from about 360 million to 300 million years ago) were its dense and swampy forests, which gave rise to large deposits of peat.

The Pennsylvanian might make up a hefty chunk of one of Earth’s most important periods, the Carboniferous, but we know relatively little about the land ecosystems that existed in its earliest days.

The Carboniferous period is pivotal in the geological record, marked by intricate stratigraphic sequences and diverse microfossil assemblages that reveal past environmental conditions and tectonic ...

The appearance of Fedexia during the Pennsylvanian Period—20 million years earlier than the Permian—was an early indicator of the diversification that was to come.

In particular, the formation of the deposits of bogs in the late (Pennsylvanian) Carboniferous in the Pyrenees is associated with the accumulation of peats from plants that are evolutionarily ...

Recently, my team reported unprecedented evidence of a continental connection between the ancient landmasses Laurentia (North America) and Iberia (the northern margin of Gondwana) in the Late ...