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Missippian period

DEFINITIONS OF: Missippian period

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n from 345 million to 310 million years ago; increase of land areas; primitive ammonites; winged insects

Synonyms:
Lower Carboniferous, Lower Carboniferous period, Mississippian
Example of:
geological period, period
a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
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