# 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

**Wikidata**: [Q5038049](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5038049)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous_rainforest_collapse)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/carboniferous-rainforest-collapse


## References

1. [Source](http://stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/ChronostratChart2018-08.jpg)