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In #Carboniferous, global #forests appeared, covering #tropical zones with tree-high #horsetails, #clubmosses, and #ferns. #Oxygen levels rose, and #CO2 was bound for transforming peat into lignite and #bituminous #coal. The climate later became colder i.a. due to the decreasing greenhouse gas leading to the Permo-Carboniferous Ice Age period.
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Beautiful cover of the latest issue of the Science Advances journal, featuring a fossil of Arthropleura, the largest arthropod of all time.

https://www.science.org/toc/sciadv/10/41

#Paleontology #Arthropleura #arthropod #fossil #carboniferous #myriapod #MontceauLesMines #science #cover #art #coverart #ScienceAdvances

Wonderfully detailed Carboniferous Crinoid fossil segments exposed along the shoreline, County Donegal, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #fossils #irishfossils #Crinoids #Carboniferous #Ireland

Less than a week before #Christmas , so out #fossil hunting during the only warm day of the week.
Location: #MineralWellsFossilPark #MineralWells ( #PaloPinto county) Texas.
#Pennsylvanian ( #Carboniferous ) reef deposit.

Lots of #crinoids and #brachiopods as usual. Quite a few #sponges and large stick #bryozoa (alas no veil bryozoa this time), and 3 distinct species of #gastropod.