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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.

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  1. a. 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.
  2. n. The Subcarboniferous period or formation.
  3. 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.
  4. Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Carboniferousformations underlying the proper coal measures. It was a marineformation characterized in general by beds of limestone.-- n.
  5. a. 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.