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Noun: Lower Carboniferous period
  1. The period from 345 million to 310 million years ago; characterized by an increase of land areas, primitive ammonites and winged insects
    - Mississippian, Missippian period, Lower Carboniferous

Type of: geological period, period

Part of: Carboniferous, Carboniferous period