Carboniferous Fossils

Fossils of the Carboniferous

360 to 286 million years ago

A tour of life over geologic time and evolution 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	Extremely Rare Harpagofututor volsellorhinus Shark Fossil Bear Gulch Limestone, Montana	Etacystis communis - Problematic H Creature Mazon Creek, Illinois	Protecticus ambulans Extinct Insect Order Protorthoptera 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	Echinochimaera meltoni Fish Fossil Bear Gulch Limestone, Montana	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	Rhaphidiophorus hystrix Phylum Annelida, Class Polycheate Mazon Creek, Illinois	Mayomyzon pieckoensis Lamprey Order Petromyzontiformes Mazon Creek, Illinois
Lepidasterella montanensis Starfish Fossil Bear Gulch Limstone, Montana	Euproops rotundatus Horseshoe Crab Lancashire, UK	Comptonaspis swallowi Mississippian Trilobite Saline County, Missouri
Additional Lower Mississippian Crinoids from Crawfordsville, Indiana