Carboniferous rainforest collapse

extinction event; occurred ca. 305 Ma at the end of the Moscovian in the Carboniferous; altered the vast coal forests that covered the equatorial region of Euramerica, fragmenting them into ‘islands’, causing dwarfism and extinction of many species

Pronunciations

• British English

  /ˌkɑːbəˈnɪfəɹəs ˈɹeɪnˌfɒɹɪst kəˈlæps/Open converter

• American English

  /ˌkɑɹbəˈnɪfəɹəs ˈɹaɪnˌfɔɹəst kəˈlæps/Open converter

These IPA transcriptions are generated from the name above. Proper names may have other pronunciations, and current converter results may differ. How transcription works

Entity details on Wikidata

Categories: