Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Richard E. Ernst +8 more
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Ostracods of the Ordovician–Silurian boundary beds: Jūrmala core (Latvia) and its implications for Baltic stratigraphy [PDF]
Ostracods of the Ordovician and Silurian transition interval in the Jūrmala section, Latvia, were studied. The diverse pre-Hirnantian ostracod assemblage is replaced by the Harpabollia harparum association that has been recorded across the Baltoscandian
Tõnu Meidla +3 more
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Cosmopolitan myodocope ostracods from the Silurian of Uzbekistan, Central Asia
Four species of myodocope ostracod are documented from the Silurian Ludlow Series of the Aburtkan gorge on the southern slope of Dzhalpak Mountain, Uzbekistan: namely, Parabolbozoe bohemica (Barrande, 1872), Bolbozoe anomala Barrande, 1872 ...
Mikhailova Elena +6 more
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The collection of Silurian heliolitoid corals revised in this study has been assembled by the first author (V.G.) for four decades. The material was collected predominantly from Silurian outcrops and borehole cores in the Middle Dnister area. Some of the
Volodymyr Grytsenko, Kseniia Rudenko
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Reappraisal of the Silurian placoderm Silurolepis and insights into the dermal neck joint evolution [PDF]
Silurolepis platydorsalis, a Silurian jawed vertebrate originally identified as an antiarch, is here redescribed as a maxillate placoderm close to Qilinyu and is anteroposteriorly reversed as opposed to the original description.
You-an Zhu, Jing Lu, Min Zhu
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Graptolites from Silurian (Llandovery Series) sedimentary deposits attributed to a forearc setting, Co To Formation, Co To archipelago, northeast Vietnam [PDF]
Newly collected graptolites from the Co To Formation, Co To archipelago, NE Vietnam, comprise assemblages indicative of two biostratigraphical levels within the lower Silurian, Llandovery Series, Telychian Stage: the co-occurrence of Spirograptus ...
Doan, Hung Dinh +9 more
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NITROGEN ISOTOPES IN KUKERSITE AND BLACK SHALE IMPLYING ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN SEAWATER REDOX CONDITIONS; pp. 60–75 [PDF]
For the first time data on nitrogen isotopes from the Ordovician-Silurian sedimentary rocks of the Baltic Basin are reported. Supplementary samples come from several regions worldwide.
ENLI KIIPLI, TARMO KIIPLI
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In recent years, the Ordovician fault-controlled fracture-cavity reservoirs developed in the basement strike-slip fault zone in the Shunbei area of the Tarim Basin has achieved major breakthroughs.
Haiying Li
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Examining abnormal Silurian trilobites from the Llandovery of Australia [PDF]
Abnormal trilobites present insight into how arthropods with fully biomineralised exoskeletons recovered from injuries, genetic malfunctions, and pathologies.
Russell D.C. Bicknell, Patrick M. Smith
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The first report of South American edrioasteroids and the paleoecology and ontogeny of rhenopyrgid echinoderms [PDF]
A new species of rhenopyrgid edrioasteroid Rhenopyrgus piojoensis sp. nov. is described form the Silurian (Lower Lud− low) Los Espejos Formation in the Precordillera of Argentina.
Heredia, Susana Emma +3 more
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