Top Results for Carboniferous

Pulmonoscorpius kirktonensis is a remarkably well-preserved fossil scorpion dating back to the Carboniferous period approximately 310 million years ago. It’s notable for possessing lungs, an unusual adaptation among scorpions at this time, suggesting a more active terrestrial lifestyle than previous...

Palaeopisthacanthus schucherti is a Carboniferous fossil scorpion from the United States, described by Petrunkevitch in 1913.

Arthropleura armata was a very large terrestrial arthropod related to millipedes that lived during the Carboniferous, with fossils known from Europe. Its body consisted of many articulated segments protected by broad dorsal plates, and trackways attributed to Arthropleura show that it moved across l...

Archaeocidaris is an extinct genus of echinoids, or sea urchins, known from the Late Devonian through the Late Permian of the Paleozoic era. Fossil material has been reported from Africa, Europe, and North America, and specimens are often incomplete because sea-urchin tests disarticulate after death...

Edestus is an extinct genus of eugeneodontid holocephalan fish that lived during the Late Carboniferous period, with fossils found in regions including the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom. The genus is distinguished by its unique tooth whorls, which projected outward from its jaws and...

Stethacanthus is an extinct genus of shark-like cartilaginous fish that lived during the Late Devonian and Carboniferous periods, approximately 380 to 320 million years ago. It is most noted for the unusual, anvil-shaped dorsal fin and spine found on mature males, the top surfaces of which were cove...

Lepidodendron aculeatum is a fossil species of arborescent lycopsid, part of the scale-tree vegetation that flourished in Carboniferous wetlands. Like related Lepidodendron species, it is identified largely from patterned leaf cushions preserved on trunk and branch surfaces, producing the characteri...

Falcatus is an extinct genus of small holocephalan or shark-like fish that lived during the Carboniferous period, with fossils primarily discovered in the Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana. The genus is notably sexually dimorphic, as adult males possessed a long, forward-curving dorsal spine that exte...

Compsoscorpius buthiformis is an extinct species of scorpion that lived during the Carboniferous period. It was first scientifically described based on fossilized remains discovered in the coal measures of the United Kingdom. Paleontologists classify it as a basal arachnid that predates modern scorp...

Calamites suckowii is an extinct genus of tree-like horsetail that thrived during the Carboniferous period, approximately 359-299 million years ago. These giant relatives of modern horsetails could reach heights of up to 30 meters and featured hollow, jointed stems with whorls of branches. Calamites...

Archaeocidaris brownwoodensis is an extinct species of cidaroid sea urchin that lived during the Carboniferous period, approximately 300 million years ago. As a member of the Archaeocidaris genus, it possessed a rigid, globular internal skeleton known as a test, which was covered in prominent, detac...

Sigillaria brardii is an extinct species of lycopsid tree that thrived in the swampy ecosystems of Europe during the Carboniferous period. As a tree-like club moss, it featured a tall, unbranched trunk marked by vertical rows of prominent, hexagonal leaf scars. Unlike modern trees, its trunk was com...

Archegonus is an extinct genus of trilobites belonging to the order Proetida, a group of marine arthropods that survived long after many other trilobite lineages died out. Fossils of this genus are primarily found in Europe and North America, with specimens dating to the Carboniferous period. Like o...

Akmonistion is an extinct chondrichthyan from the Early Carboniferous, known from fossil material found at Bearsden in Scotland. It was named in 2001 and is associated with the stethacanthid group of shark-like cartilaginous fishes. The animal is particularly notable for an anvil-like dorsal fin, an...

Tristychius arcuatus is an extinct small shark from Carboniferous rocks in Scotland. It is a member of Tristychius, a fossil shark genus used in research on early elasmobranch diversity, and its anatomy provides evidence about suction feeding in early cartilaginous fishes. The species is primarily r...

Symmorium is an extinct genus of cartilaginous fish from the Devonian and Carboniferous periods. Its type species, Symmorium reniforme, was named by Edward Drinker Cope in 1893, and the genus is discussed among symmoriiform or stethacanthid holocephalians. It resembles Stethacanthus in general appea...

A Devonian proetid trilobite genus characterized by a smooth, inflated glabella, known from multiple paleocontinents and used in biostratigraphic correlation studies.

Pentremites godoni is an extinct blastoid echinoderm from the Late Mississippian, specifically the Chesterian stage of the Carboniferous. Blastoids were stalked marine animals related to other echinoderms, and their body often had a compact, bud-like form with a distinct radial structure. Fossils of...

Phillipsia is a Carboniferous proetid trilobite genus recorded from Europe and North America. It is notable because trilobites of the genus Phillipsia survived into the late Paleozoic, when trilobite diversity had already declined substantially compared with earlier periods. Its compact body and cap...

Griffithides is an extinct genus of proetid trilobites from the Carboniferous. Its fossils are associated with marine strata, including occurrences in Ireland and other parts of Europe and North America. As a late Paleozoic trilobite, Griffithides belongs to lineages that persisted after the major D...

Pseudophillipsia is a genus of phillipsiid trilobites from late Carboniferous and Permian marine rocks. Fossils attributed to the genus occur in parts of the former Tethys region, including areas of Asia. It belongs to one of the trilobite lineages that survived into the Permian, when trilobite dive...

Paladin is a genus of phillipsiid trilobites from the Carboniferous Period. Its fossils are known from marine strata in Europe and from other regions represented in the phillipsiid record. The genus belongs to a late-surviving branch of proetid trilobites and is often found in enrolled specimens, in...

Dunbarella papyracea is an extinct marine bivalve from the Carboniferous period. It is known for its thin, delicate shell, and fossils of Dunbarella have been documented in European Carboniferous strata, including coal-measure successions and associated marine beds. The genus is of interest because...

Brachymetopus is an extinct genus of proetid trilobites known from Carboniferous rocks in Europe and North America. It occurs in both Mississippian and Pennsylvanian strata, placing it within a period when trilobite diversity had declined from its earlier Paleozoic levels. The genus is characterized...

Ditomopyge is an extinct genus of proetid trilobites known from Carboniferous and Permian marine rocks. It belongs to a lineage that persisted late in trilobite history, when trilobite diversity was already much lower than in the Paleozoic's earlier periods. Ditomopyge is studied by paleontologists...

Zeliszkella is an extinct genus of phacopid trilobites in the family Dalmanitidae, known from Middle and Upper Ordovician strata in the Czech Republic, France, Morocco, Portugal, and Spain. Its cephalon has a narrow frontal area and large schizochroal eyes, while the thorax has eleven segments and t...

Spatulina is an extinct genus of proetid trilobites from the Carboniferous. It was established for fossils originally described as Phillipsia spatulata from the Coddon Hill Chert Formation in England, and the genus is characterized in part by a spatula-shaped pygidium. The name Spatulina was later f...

Cummingella is an extinct genus of proetid trilobites in the order Proetida. Its fossil record runs from the earliest Carboniferous into the Middle Permian, and specimens have been reported from marine strata in western Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It is associated with the sub...