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The 40 pages that link to Carboniferous, each with the reason it gives.

• PermianCompared with: Its close defines the Permian’s older boundary and preceding environmental context.

• DevonianCompared with: Its coal-forming forests and tetrapods followed Devonian ecological innovations.

• GymnospermRelated: Early seed plants diversified during the Carboniferous, alongside spore-bearing forests.

• PaleozoicBroader topic: Its forests and swamps reshaped land ecosystems and stored vast amounts of carbon.

• CoalBroader topic: Its abundant fossil plants formed many of the coal beds mined today.

• FernRelated: Fern relatives flourished among the vascular plants that formed many Carboniferous forests.

• Fossil fuelRelated: Many coal deposits originated in ecosystems preserved during this period.

• Seed plantRelated: Seed plants diversified alongside spore-bearing forests during this period.

• Amniotic eggRelated: The earliest known amniotes lived during this period.

• LycophyteRelated: Tree-sized lycophytes became major components of Carboniferous wetlands.

• Carboniferous rainforest collapseNarrower topic: The collapse was one transition within this broader geological period.

• SauropsidaRelated: The earliest known amniotes appeared during this period, before sauropsid and synapsid lineages were clearly distinct.

• SynapsidaNarrower topic: The earliest known synapsids appeared during this period.

• LepidodendronNarrower topic: Lepidodendron flourished during the period that gave its forests their coal legacy.

• Mazon Creek fossil bedsNarrower topic: Mazon Creek’s organisms lived during the Pennsylvanian subdivision of this period.

• Coal forestNarrower topic: Most classic coal forests flourished during this period, when humid lowlands spread across equatorial regions.

• HylonomusNarrower topic: Hylonomus lived during the Late Carboniferous.

• Late DevonianRelated: It began after the Late Devonian crises and inherited their ecological aftermath.

• TemnospondyliRelated: The earliest temnospondyl fossils appear during this period’s expansion of terrestrial vertebrate diversity.

• Variscan orogenyRelated: Much of the Variscan collision and crustal thickening occurred during this period.

• PelycosaurRelated: The earliest synapsids appeared near the end of this period.

• LepospondyliRelated: Many known lepospondyl fossils come from Carboniferous deposits.

• ArthropleuraRelated: Most known Arthropleura fossils come from Carboniferous deposits.

• EdaphosaurusRelated: The genus originated in the Carboniferous before continuing into the Permian.

• LycopodiopsidaRelated: Many of the largest fossil lycophytes flourished during this period.

• MeganeuraNarrower topic: Meganeura lived near the end of this period, when vast coal-forming ecosystems existed.

• RicinuleiBroader topic: The oldest known ricinuleans come from Carboniferous deposits.

• ParareptiliaRelated: Some proposed early parareptile fossils come from the late Carboniferous, near the clade’s origin.

• TrigonotarbidaRelated: Carboniferous fossils provide a substantial record of the order.

• Late Paleozoic icehouseNarrower topic: The icehouse began during this period, amid major changes in forests and atmospheric composition.

• MegarachneNarrower topic: Megarachne fossils date to this period.

• ProgymnospermRelated: The later expansion of forests followed the Devonian rise of woody plants.

• Evolutionary history of plantsBroader topic: Vast plant growth and burial of organic matter formed many of the period’s coal deposits.

• HybodontiformesRelated: Carboniferous fossils document early members of the order after its Devonian beginnings.

• Islands of the ForthRelated: Many rocks around the Forth, including volcanic formations, date to this period.

• Late Devonian mass extinctionRelated: Its ecosystems developed after the Hangenberg extinction and the Devonian–Carboniferous transition.

• MarattiaceaeRelated: Marattialean tree ferns were prominent in some Carboniferous forests.

• MicrosauriaRelated: Many well-known microsaur fossils come from Carboniferous deposits.

• PteridospermRelated: Many familiar seed-fern fossils come from Carboniferous deposits.

• StethacanthusRelated: The genus also lived during this period, when its fossils occur in several deposits.