The carboniferous rainforest collapse is named after that window of geologic time in which it took place, the Carboniferous Period. carboniferous literally means coal-bearing.

The study reconstructs a Carboniferous rainforest at the largest spatial scale ever attempted. The fossils show that the Earth's first rainforests were highly diverse and that the kinds of tree ...

Nowhere elsewhere on the planet is it possible to (literally) walk through such an extensive swathe of Carboniferous rainforest. It was discovered by Dr Howard Falcon-Lang from the University of ...

Rainforest collapse 307 million years ago impacted the evolution of early land vertebrates. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 02 / 180207090142.htm ...

Carboniferous Swamp Characteristic of the Carboniferous period (from about 360 million to 300 million years ago) were its dense and swampy forests, which gave rise to large deposits of peat. Over ...

The planet’s forests absorb a net 7.6 billion metric tons of carbon each year—about 30% of what the world ... For nearly 100 million years after trees evolved in the Carboniferous period, ...

The study reconstructs a Carboniferous rainforest at the largest spatial scale ever attempted. The fossils show that the Earth's first rainforests were highly diverse and that the kinds of tree ...

Carboniferous Swamp Characteristic of the Carboniferous period (from about 360 million to 300 million years ago) were its dense and swampy forests, which gave rise to large deposits of peat. Over ...

Image: Detail of a pteridosperm, an extinct seed-producing fern-like plant. Width across image about six centimeters. A spectacular fossilised forest has transformed our understanding of the ...