The Fezouata fossils of Morocco; an extraordinary record of marine life in the Early Ordovician

P Van Roy, DEG Briggs, RR Gaines - Journal of the Geological …, 2015 - lyellcollection.org
The discovery of the Fezouata biota in the latest Tremadocian of southeastern Morocco has
significantly changed our understanding of the early Phanerozoic radiation. The shelly fossil …

The Ordovician of Scandinavia: a revised regional stage classification

AT Nielsen, P Ahlberg, JOR Ebbestad… - Geological Society …, 2023 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract The Ordovician of Scandinavia (ie Denmark, Norway and Sweden) has been
investigated for over two centuries and, through time, various chronostratigraphic schemes …

Ordovician of the Bohemian Massif

P Kraft, U Linnemann, M Mergl, J Bruthansová, L Laibl… - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The lower Paleozoic succession of central Europe exposed in the Bohemian Massif is a
classic area of geology with a long-standing tradition of research dating back to the …

The phylogeny of aglaspidid arthropods and the internal relationships within Artiopoda

J Ortega‐Hernández, DA Legg, SJ Braddy - Cladistics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The phylogenetic position of aglaspidids, a problematic group of Lower Palaeozoic
arthropods of undetermined affinities, is re‐examined in the context of the major Cambrian …

Ordovician trilobites with soft parts in African West Gondwana, European peri-Gondwana and Avalonia: a review

P Budil, O Fatka - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A review of all currently known Ordovician trilobites with soft parts described or figured from
West-Gondwana, European peri-Gondwana and Avalonia shows remains of the digestive …

Novel marrellomorph moulting behaviour preserved in the Lower Ordovician Fezouata Shale, Morocco

HB Drage, DA Legg, AC Daley - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Exoskeleton moulting is the process of shedding the old exoskeleton to enable growth,
development and repair, representing a crucial recurrent event in the life histories of all …

Early developmental stages of a Lower Ordovician marrellid from Morocco suggest simple ontogenetic niche differentiation in early euarthropods

L Laibl, P Gueriau, F Saleh, F Pérez-Peris… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Early developmental stages of euarthropods are exceptionally rare in the fossil record. This
hampers our understanding of the biology, phylogeny, and development of this extremely …

New Middle and Late Ordovician cornute stylophorans (Echinodermata) from Morocco and other peri-Gondwanan areas

B Lefebvre, M Nohejlová, ELO Martin, L Kašička… - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Cornute stylophorans are a minor, although typical, component of Middle–Late Ordovician
echinoderm assemblages adapted to soft siliciclastic substrates in high-latitude peri …

Ordovician stratigraphy and benthic community replacements in the eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco

JJ Álvaro, M Benharref, J Destombes… - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Anti-Atlas contains a thick, volcanic-free Ordovician succession that originally
deposited in a passive-margin basin. Three main sedimentary packages are bounded by …

Extreme multisegmentation in a giant bivalved arthropod from the Cambrian Burgess Shale

A Izquierdo-López, JB Caron - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
The origin of mandibulate arthropods can be traced back to the Cambrian period to several
carapace-bearing arthropod groups, but their morphological diversity is still not well …