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 …

From a bipartite Gondwanan shelf to an arcuate Variscan belt: The early Paleozoic evolution of northern Peri-Gondwana

T Stephan, UWE Kroner, RL Romer, D Rösel - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Paleozoic Variscan Orogen of Europe and North Africa comprises
reworked Neoproterozoic to Early Paleozoic crust of the northern Gondwanan shelf that …

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 …

The Bohemo‐Iberian regional chronostratigraphical scale for the Ordovician System and palaeontological correlations within South Gondwana

JC Gutiérrez‐Marco, AA Sá, DC García‐Bellido… - Lethaia, 2017 - idunn.no
The Bohemo‐Iberian regional scale for South Gondwana, involving the 'Mediterranean
Province', comprises five regional stages (Arenigian, Oretanian, Dobrotivian, Berounian and …

The Late Ordovician Tafilalt Biota, Anti-Atlas, Morocco: a high-latitude perspective on the GOBE

B Lefebvre, P Van Roy, S Zamora, JC Gutiérrez-Marco… - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The extensive, predominantly siliciclastic deposits of the Upper Ordovician of the Tafilalt
have long been the subject of scientific investigation. In the past 25 years, intensified …

The Cabrières Biota (France) provides insights into Ordovician polar ecosystems

F Saleh, L Lustri, P Gueriau, GJM Potin… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Early Palaeozoic sites with soft-tissue preservation are predominantly found in Cambrian
rocks and tend to capture past tropical and temperate ecosystems. In this study, we describe …

Late Ordovician (post-Sardic) rifting branches in the North Gondwanan Montagne Noire and Mouthoumet massifs of southern France

JJ Álvaro, J Colmenar, E Monceret, A Pouclet… - Tectonophysics, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Upper Ordovician–Lower Devonian rocks of the Cabrières klippes (southern
Montagne Noire) and the Mouthoumet massif in southern France rest paraconformably or …

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 …

A Gondwanan perspective on the Ordovician Radiation constrains its temporal duration and suggests first wave of speciation, fuelled by Cambrian clades

J Colmenar, CMØ Rasmussen - Lethaia, 2018 - idunn.no
This study presents a Cambrian–Ordovician (Cambrian,'Series 3'–Katian, Ka4) brachiopod α-
diversity curve for the Iberian terrane. Three diversity pulses characterized the northern …