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When did swampy forests cover the Earth?

Devonian period

Silurian period

Carboniferous period

Cambrian period

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Carboniferous period.

During the Carboniferous (about 359–299 million years ago), especially the Late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian), warm, humid climates produced vast swampy forests of lycophytes, ferns, horsetails and early trees that later formed extensive coal deposits.