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Carboniferous Period
Distribution of landmasses, mountainous regions, shallow seas, and deep ocean basins during the late Carboniferous Period. Included in the paleogeographic reconstruction are the locations of the interval's subduction zones.
The Moscovian Stage, which is the second of four stages within the Pennsylvanian Subsystem of the Carboniferous Period, occurred between 315.2 million and 307 million years ago.1