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It included ferns and fernlike trees. Carboniferous terrestrial environments were dominated by vascular land plants ranging from small shrubby growths to trees exceeding heights of 100 feet 30 metres.

Prehistoric Life During The Carboniferous Period

The most important groups were the lycopods sphenopsids cordaites seed ferns and true ferns.

Carboniferous animals and plants. Falcatus a close relative of Stethacanthus is probably the best-known Carboniferous shark along with the much bigger Edestus which is known primarily by its teeth. Plant Life During the Carboniferous Period. Dead plants did not completely decay and were turned to peat in these swamp forests.

The plant life of the Carboniferous period was extensive and luxuriant especially during the Pennsylvanian. The first true bony fishes the first sharks the first amphibians and the first amniotes. The interactions of plants and animals that lived in the coal swamps during the Carboniferous can be documented from the fossil record.

Close interactions are examined from the study of fossil plants. The oceans as well as lakes streams and swamps were filled with sharks early ray-finned fish giant lobe-finned fish. The plant life of the Carboniferous Period resembled modern tropical plants.

This paper discusses evidence for plantanimal relationships in the Upper Carboniferous. The Carboniferous Period was a time when the first of many animal groups evolved. And cordaites or primitive conifers.

Anthracosaurs basal tetrapods and amniotes with deep skulls and a less sprawling body plan which led to increasing agility appeared during the Carboniferous and were quickly followed by diapsids which divided into two groups. Fandom Apps Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Enter your search terms.

The earliest conifers and cycads appeared as well but were not as widespread as other plants. Giant horsetails called calamites. The abundant fossil evidence for.

Animals are a lot larger in this time period from a large amount of oxygen more that the amount of oxygen that we have today. The forests of seedless vascular plants that existed in the tropical swamp forests of Europe and North America provided the organic material that became coal. The heavily guarded fish had become extinct and were replaced with more advanced-looking fish.

The marine reptiles lizards and snakes versus the archosaurs crocodiles dinosaurs and birds. The main Early Carboniferous plants were the Equisetales horse-tails Sphenophyllales scrambling plants Lycopodiales club mosses Lepidodendrales scale trees Filicales ferns Medullosales informally included in the seed ferns an artificial assemblage of a number of early gymnosperm groups and the Cordaitales. Coal beds which can be up to 11 to 12 meters thick characterize the late Carboniferous.

As in preceding geologic periods small invertebrates like corals crinoids and arthropods were plentiful in the Carboniferous seas. Club mosses or lycopods such as Lepidodendron and Sigillaria.