Coal forest, the Glossary
Coal forests were the vast swathes of swamps and riparian forests that covered much of the land on Earth's tropical regions during the late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) and Permian periods.[1]
Table of Contents
47 relations: Alethopteris, Annularia, Appalachia, Biological carbon fixation, Calamites, Carbon, Carbon dioxide, Carboniferous, Carboniferous rainforest collapse, Cathaysia, Charcoal, Coal, Conifer, Cordaites, Dragonfly, Equisetidae, Fusain, Genus, Gondwana, Greenhouse effect, Invertebrate, Labyrinthodontia, Laurasia, Lepidodendron, Levee, List of index fossils, Lycopodiopsida, Meganeura, Neuropteris, Oxygen, Paleontology, Peat, Pecopteris, Pennsylvanian (geology), Permian, Photosynthesis, Prehistoric Park, Progymnosperm, Pteridospermatophyta, Refugium (population biology), Riparian zone, Sigillaria, Swamp, Tree fern, Tropics, Walking with Monsters, Wildfire.
- Carboniferous life
- Carboniferous paleogeography
Alethopteris
Alethopteris is a prehistoric plant genus of fossil pteridospermatophytes (seed ferns) that developed in the Carboniferous period (around).
See Coal forest and Alethopteris
Annularia
Annularia is a form taxon, applied to fossil foliage belonging to extinct plants of the genus Calamites in the order Equisetales.
Appalachia
Appalachia is a geographic region located in the central and southern sections of the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States.
See Coal forest and Appalachia
Biological carbon fixation
Biological carbon fixation, or сarbon assimilation, is the process by which living organisms convert inorganic carbon (particularly carbon dioxide) to organic compounds.
See Coal forest and Biological carbon fixation
Calamites
Calamites is a genus of extinct arborescent (tree-like) horsetails to which the modern horsetails (genus Equisetum) are closely related.
Carbon
Carbon is a chemical element; it has symbol C and atomic number 6.
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
See Coal forest and Carbon dioxide
Carboniferous
The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, Ma.
See Coal forest and Carboniferous
Carboniferous rainforest collapse
The Carboniferous rainforest collapse (CRC) was a minor extinction event that occurred around 305 million years ago in the Carboniferous period.
See Coal forest and Carboniferous rainforest collapse
Cathaysia
Cathaysia was a microcontinent or a group of terranes that rifted off Gondwana during the Late Paleozoic. Coal forest and Cathaysia are Carboniferous paleogeography.
Charcoal
Charcoal is a lightweight black carbon residue produced by strongly heating wood (or other animal and plant materials) in minimal oxygen to remove all water and volatile constituents.
Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.
Conifer
Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms.
Cordaites
Cordaites is an important genus of extinct gymnosperms, related to or actually representing the earliest conifers.
Dragonfly
A dragonfly is a flying insect belonging to the infraorder Anisoptera below the order Odonata.
Equisetidae
Equisetidae is one of the four subclasses of Polypodiopsida (ferns), a group of vascular plants with a fossil record going back to the Devonian.
See Coal forest and Equisetidae
Fusain
Fusain is a fossilised carbon deposit which, after some controversy, has been identified as fossilised charcoal.
Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
Gondwana
Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.
Greenhouse effect
The greenhouse effect occurs when greenhouse gases in a planet's atmosphere insulate the planet from losing heat to space, raising its surface temperature.
See Coal forest and Greenhouse effect
Invertebrate
Invertebrates is an umbrella term describing animals that neither develop nor retain a vertebral column (commonly known as a spine or backbone), which evolved from the notochord.
See Coal forest and Invertebrate
Labyrinthodontia
"Labyrinthodontia" (Greek, 'maze-toothed') is an informal grouping of extinct predatory amphibians which were major components of ecosystems in the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras (about 390 to 150 million years ago).
See Coal forest and Labyrinthodontia
Laurasia
Laurasia was the more northern of two large landmasses that formed part of the Pangaea supercontinent from around (Mya), the other being Gondwana. Coal forest and Laurasia are Carboniferous paleogeography.
Lepidodendron
Lepidodendron is an extinct genus of primitive lycopodian vascular plants belonging the order Lepidodendrales.
See Coal forest and Lepidodendron
Levee
A levee, dike (American English), dyke (Commonwealth English), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is a structure used to keep the course of rivers from changing and to protect against flooding of the area adjoining the river or coast.
List of index fossils
Index fossils (also known as guide fossils or indicator fossils) are fossils used to define and identify geologic periods (or faunal stages).
See Coal forest and List of index fossils
Lycopodiopsida
Lycopodiopsida is a class of vascular plants also known as lycopods or lycophytes.
See Coal forest and Lycopodiopsida
Meganeura
Meganeura is a genus of extinct insects from the Late Carboniferous (approximately 300 million years ago).
Neuropteris
Neuropteris is an extinct seed fern that existed in the Carboniferous period, known only from fossils.
See Coal forest and Neuropteris
Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.
Paleontology
Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).
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Peat
Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter.
Pecopteris
Pecopteris is a very common form genus of leaves.
See Coal forest and Pecopteris
Pennsylvanian (geology)
The Pennsylvanian (also known as Upper Carboniferous or Late Carboniferous) is, on the ICS geologic timescale, the younger of two subperiods of the Carboniferous Period (or the upper of two subsystems of the Carboniferous System).
See Coal forest and Pennsylvanian (geology)
Permian
The Permian is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.902 Mya.
Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis is a system of biological processes by which photosynthetic organisms, such as most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, convert light energy, typically from sunlight, into the chemical energy necessary to fuel their metabolism.
See Coal forest and Photosynthesis
Prehistoric Park
Prehistoric Park is a six-part nature docu-fiction television series that premiered on ITV on 22 July 2006 and on Animal Planet on 29 October 2006.
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Progymnosperm
The progymnosperms are an extinct group of woody, spore-bearing plants that is presumed to have evolved from the trimerophytes, and eventually gave rise to the gymnosperms, ancestral to acrogymnosperms and angiosperms (flowering plants).
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Pteridospermatophyta
Pteridospermatophyta, also called "pteridosperms" or "seed ferns" are a polyphyletic grouping of extinct seed-producing plants.
See Coal forest and Pteridospermatophyta
Refugium (population biology)
In biology, a refugium (plural: refugia) is a location which supports an isolated or relict population of a once more widespread species.
See Coal forest and Refugium (population biology)
Riparian zone
A riparian zone or riparian area is the interface between land and a river or stream.
See Coal forest and Riparian zone
Sigillaria
Sigillaria is a genus of extinct, spore-bearing, arborescent lycophyte, known from the Carboniferous and Permian periods.
See Coal forest and Sigillaria
Swamp
A swamp is a forested wetland.
Tree fern
The tree ferns are arborescent (tree-like) ferns that grow with a trunk elevating the fronds above ground level, making them trees.
Tropics
The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator.
Walking with Monsters
Walking with Monsters – Life Before Dinosaurs, marketed as Before the Dinosaurs – Walking with Monsters in North America, is a 2005 three-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Impossible Pictures and produced by the BBC Studios Science Unit, the Discovery Channel, ProSieben and France 3.
See Coal forest and Walking with Monsters
Wildfire
A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation.
See also
Carboniferous life
- Carboniferous plants
- Coal forest
- Combresomyces
- Endothyracea
- Fusulinida
- Guntherichthys
- Hortonella
- Maimonachaetetes
- Neoprincipia
- Ninella
- Spinofacia
Carboniferous paleogeography
- Carboniferous System
- Cathaysia
- Cimmeria (continent)
- Coal forest
- Laurasia
- Pangaea
- Proto-Tethys Ocean
- Rheic Ocean
- Ural Ocean
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_forest
Also known as Coal swamp.