Carboniferous Fossils (360 to 286 mya)

A short visual tour of how life has changed over geologic time as evidenced by the fossil record:
Precambrian Fossils I Cambrian Fossils I Ordovician Fossils I Silurian Fossils I Devonian Fossils
Carboniferous Fossils I Permian Fossils I Triassic Fossils I Jurassic Fossils I Cretaceous Fossils I Tertiary Fossils

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Cyclus obesus Crustacean Mazon Creek, Illinois	Euproops rotundatus Horseshoe Crab Lancashire, UK	Etacystis communis - Problematic H Creature Mazon Creek, Illinois	Rhaphidiophorus hystrix Phylum: Annelida; Class Polycheate Mazon Creek, Illinois
Lepidodendron mannabachense Lycopodiophyta, Bark Section of Clubmoss Tree Gliwice, Poland	Camerate Crinoid Association with Symbiotic Gastropod Crawfordsville, Indiana	Caridosuctor populosum Coelacanth Bear Gulch Limestone Heath Shale Formation, Montana	Euphoberia tracta Archipolypoda (Millipede) Mazon Creek, Illinois
Hesslerella shermani (Oldest Isopod in Fossil Record) Mazon Creek, Illinois	Comptonaspis swallowi Mississippian Trilobite Saline County, Missouri	Blastoid Echinoderm Association Burlington Formation, Missouri	Rayonnoceras solidiforme Mississippian Nautiloid Fayetteville Shale, Arkansas
Fossundecima konecniorum Polychaete Worm Mazon Creek, Illinois	Pachlocrinus aequalais Inadunate crinoid Crawfordsville, Indiana
Additional Lower Mississippian Crinoids from Crawfordsville, Indiana