Carboniferous

carboniferous English Etymology en carboniferous From en carboniferous producing carbon, from en carbon -i- -ferous. Pronunciation en /ˌkɑːbəˈnɪfəɹəs/ UK en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Carboniferous.wav Southern England en carboniferous en ɪfəɹəs 5 Adjective - en geology Of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises the lower, middle and upper Mississippian and lower, middle and upper Pennsylvanian epochs from about 345 to 280 million years ago, when coal was laid down. en 2017-08-09 Mark Carnall w:The Guardian Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/09/why-do-cephalopods-produce-ink-and-what-on-earth-is-it-anyway The earliest ink sacs appear in the fossil record in the Carboniferous period around 330 million years ago in cephalopods such as Donovaniconus, Gordoniconus and Saundersites which show a mix of features from older and more modern groups and are placed in their own order, Donovaniconida (Doguzhaeva 2012). https://web.archive.org/web/20260112040033/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/09/why-do-cephalopods-produce-ink-and-what-on-earth-is-it-anyway Translations relating to the geologic period Catalan: ca carbonífer Dutch: nl carbonisch Finnish: fi hiilikautinen, fi kivihiilikautinen French: fr carbonifère German: de karbonisch Greek: el λιθανθρακοφόρος m f Polish: pl karboński Portuguese: pt carbonífero, pt carbónico Portugal, pt carbônico Brazil Russian: ru каменноу́гольный Spanish: es carbonífero Proper noun 1 en geology The Carboniferous period. Derived terms en Permo-Carboniferous Subcarboniferous Translations the geologic period Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 石炭紀 Shítànjì Czech: cs karbon m Dutch: nl carboon n Estonian: et karbon, et kivisöeajastu Finnish: fi hiilikausi, fi kivihiilikausi French: fr Carbonifère m German: de Karbon n Greek: el Λιθανθρακοφόρος f Hungarian: hu karbon Japanese: ja 石炭紀 Sekitan-ki Latin: la Carboniferum n Mongolian: Cyrillic: mn Карбоны галав, mn Чулуун нүүрсний галав Norwegian: no karbontiden m, no karbontida f Polish: pl karbon m-in Portuguese: pt Carbonífero m Russian: ru каменноу́гольный пери́од m Spanish: es carbonífero m Swedish: sv karbon c, sv stenkolsperioden c Vietnamese: vi kỉ Các-bon, vi kỉ Than Đá See also Appendix:Geologic timescale en Coal