The latest Ordovician Hirnantian brachiopod faunas: new global insights

J Rong, DAT Harper, B Huang, R Li, X Zhang… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The temporal and spatial distribution of Hirnantian brachiopod faunas are reviewed based
on a new, comprehensive dataset from over 20 palaeoplates and terranes, a revised …

A Cenozoic-style scenario for the end-Ordovician glaciation

JF Ghienne, A Desrochers, TRA Vandenbroucke… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The end-Ordovician was an enigmatic interval in the Phanerozoic, known for massive
glaciation potentially at elevated CO2 levels, biogeochemical cycle disruptions recorded as …

Reefs during the multiple crises towards the Ordovician-Silurian boundary: Anticosti Island, eastern Canada, and worldwide

P Copper - Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2001 - cdnsciencepub.com
Multiple latest Ordovician (Rawtheyan Hirnantian) glaciations in central Africa, with
concomitant global sea-level lowstands and cooler, restricted, equatorial carbonate shelves …

Did the amalgamation of continents drive the end Ordovician mass extinctions?

CMØ Rasmussen, DAT Harper - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2011 - Elsevier
Global biodiversity has been punctuated throughout the Phanerozoic by extinction events
that vary in their degree of intensity and devastation. The mass extinction event that occurred …

Warm-water Tcherskidium Fauna (Brachiopoda) in the Late Ordovician northern hemisphere of Laurentia and peri-Laurentia

J Jin, RB Blodgett, DAT Harper… - Journal of …, 2022 - cambridge.org
The Late Ordovician (late Katian) Tcherskidium fauna consisted of large-and thick-shelled
virgianid pentamerid brachiopods characterized by large and ribbed shells of Tcherskidium …

A sequential record of the Llandovery δ13Ccarb excursions paired with time-specific facies: Anticosti Island, eastern Canada

MG Braun, P Daoust, A Desrochers - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2021 - Elsevier
The Silurian climate was volatile and punctuated by multiple short-lived climate events, each
associated with biotic crisis and perturbations to the global carbon cycle. In total, seven …

Post-extinction diversification patterns of brachiopods in the early–middle Llandovery, Silurian

B Huang, J Jin, JY Rong - Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Network and frequency distribution analyses of global brachiopod occurrences in the
earliest Silurian (Rhuddanian–Aeronian) revealed that brachiopod recovery from the end …

Interrogation of distributional data for the End Ordovician crisis interval: where did disaster strike?

CMØ Rasmussen, DAT Harper - Geological Journal, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The uppermost Ordovician–lowermost Silurian (Upper Katian–Rhuddanian) is surveyed with
respect to the α‐and β‐diversity of rhynchonelliformean brachiopods. The survey is based …

Global analyses of brachiopod faunas through the Ordovician and Silurian transition: reducing the role of the Lazarus effect

J Rong, AJ Boucot, DAT Harper, R Zhan… - Canadian Journal of …, 2006 - cdnsciencepub.com
Des analyses globales de 88 familles et de 284 genres de brachiopodes de l'Ashgill moyen
(Ordovicien tardif) au Rhuddanien précoce à moyen (Silurien précoce) indiquent que 18 …

A new species of Hirnantia (Orthida, Brachiopoda) and its implications for the Hirnantian age of the Ellis Bay Formation, Anticosti Island, eastern Canada

JB Zimmt, J Jin - Journal of Paleontology, 2023 - cambridge.org
Anticosti Island, eastern Canada, records an exceptionally thick and well-exposed
Ordovician/Silurian boundary section that hosts a series of diverse marine invertebrate …