There seems to be a confusing mixing of chronologies with Carboniferous being both a Period and System. According to Wikipedia the TIME (geochronology) divisions are as follows:
Eon, era, period, epoch, age
The ROCK (chronostratigraphy) divisions which correspond to them are:
Eonthem, erathem, system, series, stage
Confusing....
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