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The Paleontology of North America

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The Carboniferous in North Carolina, US

undifferentiated rock units

See exposures in this state from the:

		Quaternary
		Tertiary
		Cretaceous
		Jurassic
		Triassic
		Permian
		Carboniferous
		Devonian
		Silurian
		Ordovician
		Cambrian
		Precambrian

Carboniferous Fossils

Paleontology and geology

The final episode of mountain building (the Allegheny Orogeny) that created the Appalachian Mountains began during the Carboniferous, and this was a time of intense deformation and metamorphism. There are no sedimentary rocks or fossils from this time period.