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 …

The Bohemo‐Iberian regional scale for South Gondwana, involving the 'Mediterranean
Province', comprises five regional stages (Arenigian, Oretanian, Dobrotivian, Berounian and …

Progressive opening of the Rheic Ocean led to the drifting away of one or several ribbon
terranes, generally ascribed to Avalonia, and inaugurated a passive margin stage on the …

Abstract The Variscan Orogen in Iberia and the Anti-Atlas Mountains in Morocco contains a
set of ophiolites formed between Neoproterozoic and Devonian times, during the complex …

Abstract The Cantabrian Zone, in the Variscan belt of Western Europe, has one of the most
continuous Ediacaran–Paleozoic stratigraphic successions in the world. This succession …

The end-Ordovician mass extinction, linked to a major glaciation, led to deep changes in
Hirnantian–Rhuddanian biotas. The Hirnantia Fauna, the first of two Hirnantian survival …

Abstract In the Iberian Chains of northeastern Spain, the Hirnantian Orea Shale comprises
three erosive glaciogenic unconformities punctuating two transgressive glaciomarine …

The first report of the Hirnantia high-latitude peri-Gondwanan Fauna from Portugal (Upper
Ordovician, Ribeira do Braçal Formation) is presented here. The described …

Spain contains some of the most extensive and fossiliferous Palaeozoic outcrops in Europe,
including invertebrate and vertebrate faunas that are internationally significant in terms of …

This is a 4-day-excursion to visit several localities yielding paleozoic and mesozoic
brachiopods in Central-East Spain. During these 4 days, we will see successions that …