Individual #Carboniferous_period__Carboniferous  from 280 million to 345 million years ago
  instance of:  #geological_period
  part:  #Pennsylvanian_period  #Missippian_period
  part of:  #Paleozoic_era__Paleozoic  from 230 million to about 544 million years ago

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