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Plants Cover The Earth. The Carboniferous Period of the Paleozoic Era began 354 million years ago. It lasted for about 64 million years, until 290 million years ago. The name âCarboniferousâ came from the large amounts of carbon-bearing coal that was formed during the period.In the United States, the Carboniferous is divided into two epochs.he End of The Carboniferous Period. The end of the Carboniferous period is marked by global climate changes due to the glaciers that covered the South Pole. The mass extinctions that mark the end of other geologic periods were not present, yet many species did go extinct during this time.
The Carboniferous Period (in North America subdivided into the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian Periods) and the first half of the subsequent Permian Period (299 million to 251 million years ago) were the times of high oxygen, and the biota of the world at that time left clear evidence of the high oxygen.