Reappraisal of the Silurian placoderm Silurolepis and insights into the dermal neck joint evolution [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 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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NITROGEN ISOTOPES IN KUKERSITE AND BLACK SHALE IMPLYING ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN SEAWATER REDOX CONDITIONS; pp. 60–75 [PDF]
Oil Shale, 2013 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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Three-dimensionally preserved soft tissues and calcareous hexactins in a Silurian sponge: implications for early sponge evolution [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Sponges (Porifera), as one of the earliest-branching animal phyla, are crucial for understanding early metazoan phylogeny. Recent studies of Lower Palaeozoic sponges have revealed a variety of character states and combinations unknown in extant taxa ...
Ardianty Nadhira +8 more
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Ostracods of the Ordovician–Silurian boundary beds: Jūrmala core (Latvia) and its implications for Baltic stratigraphy [PDF]
Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2020 Ostracods of the Ordovician and Silurian transition interval in the JÅ«rmala 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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Geo&Bio, 2023 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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Cosmopolitan myodocope ostracods from the Silurian of Uzbekistan, Central Asia
BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin, 2020 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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PROSPECTS OF LITHUANIAN SILURIAN SHALE GAS, BALTIC SEDIMENTARY BASIN; pp. 357–372 [PDF]
Oil Shale, 2016 The Baltic sedimentary basin contains numerous hydrocarbon fields in Lithuania. The Lower Silurian shales are considered as potential for shale gas exploration. The thickness of shale units within the oil window ranges from 115 to 180 m in west Lithuania.
SAULIUS SLIAUPA +6 more
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Examining abnormal Silurian trilobites from the Llandovery of Australia [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 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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Metamorphosis in a Silurian barnacle [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2005 Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Wenlock Series (Silurian) of Herefordshire, UK, provide unique evidence of metamorphosis from free-swimming cyprid larva to attached juvenile in a Palaeozoic barnacle. The larva had large brush-like anterior limbs.
Briggs, D +3 more
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Early Silurian crinoid diversification on Baltica: Euspirocrinus varbolaensis sp. nov. [PDF]
Estonian Journal of Earth SciencesThis article describes the crinoid Euspirocrinus varbolaensis sp. nov. from the early Silurian (Rhuddanian) of northern Estonia. Discovered within the lower Rhuddanian strata in the Reinu quarry, Rapla Parish, this is the second Rhuddanian species of ...
William I. Ausich +2 more
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