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|style="background:{{period color|Asselian}}"| 298.9 ±&nbsp;0.2<sup>*</sup>
 
|style="background:{{period color|Asselian}}"| 298.9 ±&nbsp;0.2<sup>*</sup>
 
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|rowspan="4" style="background:{{period color|Pennsylvanian}}"| [[Carboniferous|Carbon-<br />iferous]]<ref name="carboniferous">In North America, the Carboniferous is subdivided into [[Mississippian]] and [[Pennsylvanian]] Periods.</ref>'''/'''<br />[[Pennsylvanian|Pennsyl-<br />vanian]]
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|rowspan="7" style="background:{{period color|Carboniferous}}"| [[Carboniferous|Carbon-<br />iferous]]<ref name="carboniferous">In North America, the Carboniferous is subdivided into [[Mississippian]] and [[Pennsylvanian]] Periods.</ref>
|rowspan="2" style="background:{{period color|Upper Pennsylvanian}}"| [[Late Pennsylvanian|Upper]]
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|rowspan="4" style="background:{{period color|Pennsylvanian}}"| [[Pennsylvanian|Pennsyl-<br />vanian]]
 
|style="background:{{period color|Gzhelian}}"| [[Gzhelian]]
 
|style="background:{{period color|Gzhelian}}"| [[Gzhelian]]
 
|rowspan="4"| [[Pterygota|Winged insects]] radiate suddenly; some (esp. [[Protodonata]] and [[Palaeodictyoptera]]) are quite large. [[Amphibian]]s common and diverse. First [[reptile]]s and [[coal]] forests ([[Lepidodendron|scale tree]]s, ferns, [[Sigillaria|club tree]]s, [[Calamites|giant horsetail]]s, ''[[Cordaites]]'', etc.). Highest-ever [[Earth's atmosphere|atmospheric]] [[oxygen]] levels. [[Goniatite]]s, brachiopods, bryozoa, bivalves, and corals plentiful in the seas and oceans. Testate [[foram]]s proliferate. [[Uralian orogeny]] in Europe and Asia. [[Variscan orogeny]] occurs towards middle and late Mississippian Periods.
 
|rowspan="4"| [[Pterygota|Winged insects]] radiate suddenly; some (esp. [[Protodonata]] and [[Palaeodictyoptera]]) are quite large. [[Amphibian]]s common and diverse. First [[reptile]]s and [[coal]] forests ([[Lepidodendron|scale tree]]s, ferns, [[Sigillaria|club tree]]s, [[Calamites|giant horsetail]]s, ''[[Cordaites]]'', etc.). Highest-ever [[Earth's atmosphere|atmospheric]] [[oxygen]] levels. [[Goniatite]]s, brachiopods, bryozoa, bivalves, and corals plentiful in the seas and oceans. Testate [[foram]]s proliferate. [[Uralian orogeny]] in Europe and Asia. [[Variscan orogeny]] occurs towards middle and late Mississippian Periods.
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|style="background:{{period color|Kasimovian}}"| 307.0 ±&nbsp;0.1
 
|style="background:{{period color|Kasimovian}}"| 307.0 ±&nbsp;0.1
 
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|style="background:{{period color|middle pennsylvanian}}"| [[Middle Pennsylvanian|Middle]]
 
 
|style="background:{{period color|Moscovian}}"| [[Moscovian (Carboniferous)|Moscovian]]
 
|style="background:{{period color|Moscovian}}"| [[Moscovian (Carboniferous)|Moscovian]]
 
|style="background:{{period color|Moscovian}}"| 315.2 ±&nbsp;0.2
 
|style="background:{{period color|Moscovian}}"| 315.2 ±&nbsp;0.2
 
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|style="background:{{period color|Lower Pennsylvanian}}"| [[Early Pennsylvanian|Lower]]
 
 
|style="background:{{period color|Bashkirian}}"| [[Bashkirian]]
 
|style="background:{{period color|Bashkirian}}"| [[Bashkirian]]
 
|style="background:{{period color|Bashkirian}}"| 323.2 ±&nbsp;0.4<sup>*</sup>
 
|style="background:{{period color|Bashkirian}}"| 323.2 ±&nbsp;0.4<sup>*</sup>
 
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|rowspan="3" style="background:{{period color|Mississippian}}"| [[Carboniferous|Carbon-<br />iferous]]<ref name="carboniferous" />'''/'''<br />[[Mississippian|Missis-<br />sippian]]
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|rowspan="3" style="background:{{period color|Mississippian}}"|[[Mississippian|Missis-<br />sippian]]
|style="background:{{period color|upper mississippian}}"| [[Late Mississippian|Upper]]
 
 
|style="background:{{period color|Serpukhovian}}"| [[Serpukhovian]]
 
|style="background:{{period color|Serpukhovian}}"| [[Serpukhovian]]
 
|rowspan="3"| Large [[Lycopodiophyta|primitive tree]]s, first [[Tetrapoda|land vertebrate]]s, and amphibious [[eurypterid|sea-scorpion]]s live amid [[coal]]-forming coastal [[brackish water|swamp]]s. Lobe-finned [[rhizodont]]s are dominant big fresh-water predators. In the oceans, early [[Chondrichthyes|shark]]s are common and quite diverse; [[echinoderm]]s (especially [[crinoid]]s and [[blastoid]]s) abundant. [[Coral]]s, [[bryozoa]], [[Goniatitida|goniatite]]s and brachiopods ([[Productida]], [[Spiriferida]], etc.) very common, but [[Trilobita|trilobite]]s and [[nautiloid]]s decline. [[Glaciation]] in East [[Gondwana]]. [[Mayor Island/Tuhua|Tuhua Orogeny]] in New Zealand tapers off.
 
|rowspan="3"| Large [[Lycopodiophyta|primitive tree]]s, first [[Tetrapoda|land vertebrate]]s, and amphibious [[eurypterid|sea-scorpion]]s live amid [[coal]]-forming coastal [[brackish water|swamp]]s. Lobe-finned [[rhizodont]]s are dominant big fresh-water predators. In the oceans, early [[Chondrichthyes|shark]]s are common and quite diverse; [[echinoderm]]s (especially [[crinoid]]s and [[blastoid]]s) abundant. [[Coral]]s, [[bryozoa]], [[Goniatitida|goniatite]]s and brachiopods ([[Productida]], [[Spiriferida]], etc.) very common, but [[Trilobita|trilobite]]s and [[nautiloid]]s decline. [[Glaciation]] in East [[Gondwana]]. [[Mayor Island/Tuhua|Tuhua Orogeny]] in New Zealand tapers off.
 
|style="background:{{period color|Serpukhovian}}"| 330.9 ±&nbsp;0.2
 
|style="background:{{period color|Serpukhovian}}"| 330.9 ±&nbsp;0.2
 
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|style="background:{{period color|Middle Mississippian}}"| [[Middle Mississippian|Middle]]
 
 
|style="background:{{period color|visean}}"| [[Viséan]]
 
|style="background:{{period color|visean}}"| [[Viséan]]
 
|style="background:{{period color|visean}}"| 346.7 ±&nbsp;0.4<sup>*</sup>
 
|style="background:{{period color|visean}}"| 346.7 ±&nbsp;0.4<sup>*</sup>
 
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|style="background:{{period color|lower mississippian}}"| [[Early Mississippian|Lower]]
 
 
|style="background:{{period color|Tournaisian}}"| [[Tournaisian]]
 
|style="background:{{period color|Tournaisian}}"| [[Tournaisian]]
 
|style="background:{{period color|Tournaisian}}"| 358.9 ±&nbsp;0.4<sup>*</sup>
 
|style="background:{{period color|Tournaisian}}"| 358.9 ±&nbsp;0.4<sup>*</sup>

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