New palaeogeographical reconstructions are presented for eleven time intervals through the
Palaeozoic of the eastern Asia region from the Middle Cambrian at 510Ma to the end of the …

Abstract The Ordovician Period records an extraordinary biodiversity increase known as the
Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE), which coincided with a series of …

▪ Abstract Near the end of the Late Ordovician, in the first of five mass extinctions in the
Phanerozoic, about 85% of marine species died. The cause was a brief glacial interval that …

A new ecological-severity ranking of the major Phanerozoic biodiversity crises is proposed
in which the Capitanian crisis is ranked lesser than the Frasnian (Late Devonian) but greater …

The 'Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event'(GOBE) saw a spectacular increase in marine
biodiversity at all taxonomic levels largely within the phyla established much earlier during …

The old terrane of Siberia occupied a very substantial area in the centre of today's political
Siberia and also adjacent areas of Mongolia, eastern Kazakhstan, and northwestern China …

Accelerated biotic turnover during the Late Triassic has led to the perception of an end-
Triassic mass extinction event, now regarded as one of the “big five” extinctions. Close …

Profound changes in the biodiversity and biocomplexity of marine life occurred during the
early to mid-Ordovician through an interval of some 25 Myr. The planet's seascapes were …

Diversification is a key property of life. Building on John Phillips'(1860) classic, iconic curve,
Phanerozoic biodiversity trajectories have been based, subsequently, on the availability of …

The 'origin of larvae'has been widely discussed over the years, almost invariably with the
tacit understanding that larvae are secondary specializations of early stages in a …