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 …

[HTML][HTML] The end-Ordovician mass extinction: a single-pulse event?

G Wang, R Zhan, IG Percival - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
The end-Ordovician mass extinction (EOME) is widely interpreted as consisting of two
pulses associated with the onset and demise of the Gondwana glaciation, respectively, with …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Sulfidic anoxia in the oceans during the Late Ordovician mass extinctions–insights from molybdenum and uranium isotopic global redox proxies

TW Dahl, EU Hammarlund, CMØ Rasmussen… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Ordovician Mass Extinction wiped out 85% of animal species in two
phases (LOME1 and LOME2). The kill mechanisms for the extinction phases are debated …

The Ordovician record of North and West Africa: unravelling sea-level variations, Gondwana tectonics, and the glacial impact

JF Ghienne, H Abdallah, R Deschamps, M Guiraud… - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Ordovician of North and West Africa comprises three main transgressive–
regressive sequences understood as 'second-order'cycles of 10–15 myr duration. Tide-to …

A synopsis of the Ordovician System in its birthplace–Britain and Ireland

SG Molyneux, DAT Harper, MR Cooper, SP Hollis… - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Rock successions in Britain and Ireland, and more especially those in Wales, were
instrumental in the founding and naming of the Ordovician System, and the Anglo-Welsh …

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 …

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 …

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 …