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EARLY CARBONIFEROUS [15 records]

Record 1 2016-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fish
  • Paleontology
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

Extinct fish of the Devonian Period belonging to the subelass "Crossopterygii" and therefore closely related to the ancestors of land vertebrates. They had a well ossified skull including a ring of bones around each orbit ... The body was covered with cosmoid scales. The paired fins were of the "archipterygian" type and the tail was slightly heterocercal.

OBS

Order of early Crossopterygian fish. Osteolepids occur in Old Red Sandstone and Carboniferous rocks. They are thought to be the ancestral origins of the terrestrial vertebrates.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Poissons
  • Paléontologie
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Ils présentent des narines internes ou «choanes» faisant communiquer les orifices nasaux avec la bouche comme chez les vertébrés à respiration pulmonaire. La disposition des os de la tête rappelle à la fois celle de «Palaeoniscus» et celle des Amphibiens Stégocéphales les plus primitifs [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-12-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tectonics
DEF

An orogeny extending from the Early Carboniferous to the late Permian, caused by a collision between North America and Africa, affecting an area from Alabama to Newfoundland, and resulting in the formation of the Appalachian Mountains.

OBS

Alleghanian orogenesis: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique
CONT

Signalons que plus au sud, aux U.S.A., les Appalaches ont connu une autre phase tectonique qui a eu très peu d'effet dans les Appalaches du Québec, l'orogenèse alléghanienne (Permien).

OBS

orogenèse alléghanienne : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 3 2009-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
CONT

... a 7 cm thick, green, mica-rich shale occurs and it is this horizon that has yielded the plant spores. Eleven species have been identified and they typify two spore zones that include the whole of the Asbian stage and the early part of the succeeding Brigantian of the Carboniferous period.

OBS

spore zone: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

zone à spores : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 4 2006-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geochemistry
CONT

... the Early Cretaceous and Carboniferous spores appear more organically mature than the remainder of the assemblage, a factor that may produce spurious organic maturity values(e. g. vitrinite/huminite reflectance).

OBS

organic maturity value: term usually used in the plural (organic maturity values).

OBS

organic maturity values: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

Key term(s)
  • organic maturity values

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géochimie
OBS

chiffre de la maturité organique : terme généralement utilisé au pluriel (chiffres de la maturité organique).

OBS

chiffres de la maturité organique : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Key term(s)
  • chiffres de la maturité organique

Spanish

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Record 5 2006-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Chronology
DEF

Of or relating to the last major division of the Paleozoic marked by extensive glaciation in India, South Africa, South America, and Australia, by decline of the amphibians and increase of primitive reptiles, and by rocks consisting largely of red sandstone and shale.

CONT

The country rocks are carbonates and argillaceous sediments of the early and middle Palaezoic overlain by Carboniferous rocks with coals, Permian and a Triassic basic volcanic sequence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Chronologie
CONT

Des gisements permiens [...] sont exploités par l'U.R.S.S. dans le nord-ouest de l'Oural [...]

CONT

[...] le laccolite [...] d'âge oligocène interstratifié dans les grès permiens.

CONT

[...] le laccolite [...] perfore les formations permiennes.

CONT

On [...] trouve [les dacites] dans les terrains permiens aux environs de Saint-Raphaël [...]

CONT

[...] les nouveaux grès rouges [...] d'âge permien et triasique en Angleterre [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Petrografía
  • Cronología
DEF

[Dícese del] último período del Palezoico, de duración de 40 millones de años.

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Record 6 2006-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chronology
  • Geology
CONT

The country rocks are carbonates and argillaceous sediments of the early and middle Palaeozoic overlain by Carboniferous rocks with coals, Permian and Triassic basic volcanic sequence.

CONT

... these processes have been active since the early Paleozoic ([about] 600 million years).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chronologie
  • Géologie
CONT

[...] dans le passé, ont pu régner d'autres conditions sans équivalent dans la nature actuelle, notamment au Précambrien et au début du Paléozoïque, alors que les plantes et les bêtes étaient confinées dans les eaux, et que les terres émergées étaient encore désertes et inviolées.

Spanish

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Record 7 2006-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chronology
  • Geology
  • Archaeology
OBS

(360 to 320 million years ago).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chronologie
  • Géologie
  • Archéologie

Spanish

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Record 8 2005-12-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chronology
  • Geology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chronologie
  • Géologie

Spanish

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Record 9 2005-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chronology
  • Geology
CONT

... latest Devonian or Early Carboniferous continental, basal sandstones and conglomerates... contain phosphatic uraniferous occurrences.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chronologie
  • Géologie
CONT

[...] des grès et conglomérats de base du Dévonien sommital ou du Carbonifère basal déposés en milieu continental renferment des indices uranifères phosphatés.

Spanish

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Record 10 2002-09-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
CONT

Captorhinids(or Cotylosaurs) are "stem reptiles", primitive anapsids that led to the reptiles(including dinosaurs and turtles), birds, and mammals. They evolved from amphibians during the Early Carboniferous period, about 340 million years ago and went extinct at the end of the Triassic period, about 250 million years ago. They had four sprawling legs and a long tail.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Ce sont les reptiles «les plus anciens» que nous connaissions. Ils apparaissent au sommet du Carbonifère et à la base du Permien [...] Ils ont des «caractères archaïques» : leur crâne rappelle celui des Amphibiens Embolomères et Seymouriamorphes par sa voûte continue, solide, «sans fosse temporale», percée seulement par les narines, les orbites et un orifice pinéal [...] Les membres sont courts, trapus, plus ou moins horizontaux.

Spanish

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Record 11 2000-02-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Reptiles and Amphibians
CONT

The Pelycosauria were among the very first groups of reptiles to evolve, early in the Late Carboniferous(Pennsylvanian) period. By the end of that period all the major lines of Pelycosaurs except the caesids had appeared. They remained the dominant life-form(the largest, fiercest, etc) for some 40-odd million years, which is about 3/5ths the length of time of the age of mammals.

OBS

Order composed of suborders ophiacodontia, sphenacodontia and edaphesauria.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Reptiles et amphibiens
OBS

Ce sont des formes uniquement permiennes. La présence d'«une fosse temporale» n'empêche pas qu'ils soient encore «très primitifs». Ils ont, en effet, des dents palatines, des vestiges importants de corde dorsale, des humérus et fémurs horizontaux. Par certains genres intermédiaires, les Pélycosauriens passent à des formes plus évoluées qui manifestent des affinités avec les mammifères.

Spanish

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Record 12 2000-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
  • Reptiles and Amphibians
OBS

Branchiosaurus(meaning "gill lizard") was a very early amphibian from early Carboniferous to the early Permian period(roughly 300 million years ago). It was NOT a dinosaur. Like all amphibians, they had to live near the water since amphibian eggs have no shells and must be laid in the water(or in very damp areas) or they will dry out and die. Fossils of these salamander-sized amphibian have been found in Europe. They were the closest relatives of the lissamphibians. Classification : Subclass Labyrinthodont, Order Temnospondyl, Genus Branchiosaurus, many species.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
  • Reptiles et amphibiens
OBS

Son extension géographique est considérable: on le trouve dans le Stéphanien de Commentry et des Indes, dans le Carbonifère supérieur d'Amérique du Nord, dans le Permien d'Autun, de la Sarre, de Thuringe, etc. [...] Son aspect général était celui d'une Salamandre à crâne aplati dorso-ventralement et à queue aplatie latéralement.

Spanish

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Record 13 1992-05-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Chronology
CONT

The country rocks are carbonates and argillaceous sediments of the early and middle Palaeozoic overlain by Carboniferous rocks with coals....

CONT

Gold fields have been worked in Queensland within areas where Carboniferous rocks are said to prevail.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Chronologie
OBS

Par analogie avec "gîte du Carbonifère" : PLGEO, 1972, vol. 1, p. 41.

Spanish

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Record 14 1978-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

The primitive synapsids are among the commonest animals found in the red beds of Texas, dating from late Carboniferous and early Permian times. A primitive member of the order was Varanosaurus, a small form not more than 3 feet in length even with the inclusion of a very long tail.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Reptile théromorphe fossile du Permien du Texas, pouvant atteindre un mètre de longueur, ressemblant au varan actuel.

Spanish

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Record 15 1978-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

They appear in early Mississippian horizons and had already reached and passed their time of major development by the end of the Carboniferous. There were snakelike astopods, Dolichosoma and Ophiderpeton; numerous nectridians, including "horned" forms such as Keraterpeton, and the elongate Urocordylus(...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Amphibien stégocéphale, de l'époque carbonifère, ayant la forme d'un lézard à très longue queue, et dont les vertèbres ont des apophyses épineuses crénelées.

Spanish

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