Subcarboniferous

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Subcarboniferous \Sub*car`bon*if"er*ous\, a. (Geol.)
     Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Carboniferous
     formations underlying the proper coal measures. It was a
     marine formation characterized in general by beds of
     limestone. -- n. The Subcarboniferous period or formation.
     [1913 Webster]