Plant remains - Avon
Writhlington - Westphalian D
Whitehaven - Westphalian C
East Wemyss- Westphalian B
Castleton- Namurian
Aberlady - Visean
Weston-Super-Mare - Tournaisian
Clints Quarry - Tournaisian
Carboniferous
GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE: Gondwanaland joins the Northern land masses to form Pangaea, Warm climate cooled to an ice age in the Southern Hemisphere Marine limestone's overlaid with coal seams.
TERRESTRIAL ANIMAL LIFE: Age of Amphibians, first reptiles appear, snails Centipedes and millipedes cockroaches and giant dragonflies.
PLANT LIFE: Rich flora of giant tree-ferns, horsetails and conifers from the swampy coal forests.
SEA LIFE: Ammonites, Brachiopods in the seas. Rugose corals, graptolites trilobites and some forms of Bryozoans, crinoids and mollusc's disappear. |
