Scientific Reports, 2022 The Early Ordovician is a key interval for our understanding of the evolution of life on Earth as it lays at the transition between the Cambrian Explosion and the Ordovician Radiation and because the fossil record of the late Cambrian is scarce.
Farid Saleh +12 more
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Late Ordovician molluscs of the central and eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco [PDF]
, 2022 More than 30 species of tergomyan, gastropod, bivalve and cephalopod molluscs are described from the Late Ordovician of central and eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco.
Polechová, Marika +3 more
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Was there more space in the late Early Devonian for marine biodiversity to peak than in the early Late Ordovician?: A brief note [PDF]
Geološki Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva, 2013 After the so-called “Cambrian explosion”, marine biodiversity peaked either in the early Late Ordovician (as shown by the “classical” curves based on the extensive palaeontological data compilation) or in the late Early Devonian (as shown by the
Ruban Dmitry A.
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Impact of global climate cooling on Ordovician marine biodiversity
Nature Communications, 2023 Global cooling has been proposed as a driver of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, the largest radiation of Phanerozoic marine animal Life.
Daniel Eliahou Ontiveros +5 more
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The only known cyclopygid–‘atheloptic’ trilobite fauna from North America: the upper Ordovician fauna of the Pyle Mountain Argillite and its palaeoenvironmental significance [PDF]
, 2012 The trilobite fauna of the upper Ordovician (middle Katian) Pyle Mountain Argillite comprises a mixture of abundant mesopelagic cyclopygids and other pelagic taxa and a benthic fauna dominated by trilobites lacking eyes.
Bruton, D.L. +3 more
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Lower Palaeozoic source rocks in Manjiaer Sag, Tarim Basin
Petroleum Exploration and Development, 2008 Considering its vertical distribution characteristics, this article argues that the Lower Palaeozoic source rock in the Manjieer Sag is composed of three sets of source rocks of Middle-Lower Cambrian, Middle-Lower Ordovician, and Upper Ordovician.
Meng-jun ZHAO +5 more
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Geosciences, 2022 This report provides oxygen isotopes from apatite of late Middle and Late Ordovician conodonts from the southern Holy Cross Mountains in south-eastern Poland.
Wiesław Trela +3 more
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The Digital Atlas of Ordovician Life: digitizing and mobilizing data for paleontologists and the public [PDF]
Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2014 A new online resource, “The Digital Atlas of Ordovician Life: Exploring the Fauna of the Cincinnati Region” (www.OrdovicianAtlas.org), provides a tool for exploring the diversity, systematics, biogeography and stratigraphy of Late Ordovician fossils of ...
Alycia L. Stigall +2 more
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Terrane evolution of the paratectonic Caledonides of northern Britain [PDF]
, 2001 A stratigraphically constrained re-evaluation of terrane amalgamation in the Caledonides of northern Britain allows the development of a new orogenic scenario which accounts for many of the outstanding problems in the paratectonic Caledonides and ...
H. A. ARMSTRONG +5 more
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The youngest representatives of the genus Ribeiria Sharpe, 1853 from the late Katian of the Prague Basin (Bohemia) [PDF]
Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2015 Ribeiria apusoides and Ribeiria johni sp. nov. are described from the late Katian of the Prague Basin (Bohemia) as the youngest representatives of the genus Ribeiria.
Marika Polechová
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