carboniferous period

Noun carboniferous period has 1 sense

• carboniferous period(n = noun.time) carboniferous - from 345 million to 280 million years ago;
is a part of paleozoic, paleozoic era
has parts: pennsylvanian, pennsylvanian period, upper carboniferous, upper carboniferous period, lower carboniferous, lower carboniferous period, missippian period, mississippian
is a kind of geological period, period