Early Silurian crinoid diversification on Baltica: Euspirocrinus varbolaensis sp. nov. [PDF]
This 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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Solutans were among the most enigmatic pre-radial and asymmetric echinoderms. A new species Dehmicystis ariasi sp. nov. is described from the upper part of the Llagarinos Formation, lower Ludlow (Silurian) of Northwest Spain.
SAMUEL ZAMORA +1 more
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Silurian graptolite biostratigraphy of the Röstånga-1 drill core, Scania:a standard for southern Scandinavia [PDF]
The Rostanga-1 core from west-central Scania provides the most complete succession of the Sandbian (Upper Ordovician) through lower Telychian (Silurian, Llandovery) strata of southern Scandinavia. The Hirnantian is identified in the Kallholn Formation by
Ahlberg, Per +5 more
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Characterization of Upper Wenlock and Lower Ludlow strata in the Silurian reference section of the Chernov Uplift (Timan-Pechora petroleum province) [PDF]
The features of the Upper Wenlock and Lower Ludlow boundary strata in the Silurian reference section located in the central part of the Chernov Uplift in the Arctic zone of the European Northeast of Russia are characterized.
Matveev V.A., Beznosova T.M.
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Gastropods in the Ordovician and Silurian successions on Anticosti island, eastern Canada
Anticosti Island is located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec, in eastern Canada. Relatively undisturbed Ordovician and Silurian sediments are preserved, with surface exposures ranging from the Ashgill (Rawtheyan) to the Llandovery (Telychian ...
Ebbestad, Jan Ove R.,
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The Silurian hydrocarbon exploration in the northwest Tarim Basin had long been fruitless, till Well XSD1 drilled in 2018 in the Shajingzi structural belt, northwest Tarim Basin tapped industrial gas flow from the Silurian for the first time.
Junfeng ZHANG +2 more
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On the margins: exceptionally preserved small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs) from Silurian marginal marine strata of southern China [PDF]
Small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs) have recently emerged as a novel means to track the evolution of non-mineralized animals throughout the early Palaeozoic. Currently however, records are largely concentrated in Cambrian-age strata, and little is known of
Kai Wang +5 more
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A three-dimensionally preserved lobopodian from the Herefordshire (Silurian) Lagerstätte, UK [PDF]
The Herefordshire (Silurian) Lagerstätte (approx. 430 Myr BP) has yielded, among many exceptionally preserved invertebrates, a wide range of new genera belonging to crown-group Panarthropoda.
Derek J. Siveter +4 more
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U-Pn geochronology of deformed metagranites in central Sutherland, Scotland: evidence for widespread late Silurian metamorphism and ductile deformation of the Moine Supergroup during the Caledonian orogeny [PDF]
Within the Caledonides of central Sutherland, Scotland, the Neoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks of the Moine Supergroup record NW-directed D2 ductile thrusting and nappe assembly, accompanied by widespread tight-to-isoclinal folding and amphibolite ...
Kinny, P.D. +10 more
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A new species of middle Rhuddanian Halysites (Tabulata) from Meitan, northern Guizhou, Southwest China [PDF]
A new halysitid species, Halysites gaojiangensis, is systematically described from the middle Rhuddanian (Llandovery, Silurian) Wulipo Bed at Gaojiang, Meitan County, northern Guizhou Province, Southwest China.
Guangxu Wang, Renbin Zhan
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