Lower Carboniferous period


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Noun1.Lower Carboniferous period - from 345 million to 310 million years agoLower Carboniferous period - from 345 million to 310 million years ago; increase of land areas; primitive ammonites; winged insects
Lower Carboniferous, Missippian period, Mississippian
Carboniferous, Carboniferous period - from 345 million to 280 million years ago
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During the Lower Carboniferous period, when the creature lived, the earliest four-limbed ancestors of modern animals were just starting to colonise the land.
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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.
Record-breaking reptile

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