New palaeogeographical reconstructions for the earlier Ordovician (480 Ma), and later
Ordovician (450 Ma) integrate revised longitude-calibrated palaeomagnetic reconstructions …

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

The Ordovician biodiversification has been recognized since the 1960s; the term 'The Great
Ordovician Biodiversification Event', abbreviated by many as the 'GOBE', has been used for …

The spatial coverage and temporal resolution of the Early Paleozoic paleoclimate record are
limited, primarily due to the paucity of well-preserved skeletal material commonly used for …

Abstract The Cambrian 'Explosion', located by many authors between 540 and 520 million
years ago (Ma), is considered to be an abrupt appearance in the fossil record of most animal …

The extensive work carried out during more than a decade by the International
Subcommission on Ordovician Stratigraphy has resulted in a new global classification of the …

The greatest relative changes in marine biodiversity accumulation occurred during the Early
Paleozoic. The precision of temporal constraints on these changes is crude, hampering our …

Following the Cambrian Explosion and the appearance in the fossil record of most animal
phyla associated with a range of new body plans, the Ordovician and Silurian periods …

The old terrane of Baltica occupies the mass of northern Europe eastwards to the Urals and
lies mostly to the north of the Trans-European Suture Zone. The core, the East European …

Abstract The end Ordovician (Hirnantian) extinction was the first of the five big Phanerozoic
extinction events, and the first that involved metazoan-based communities. It comprised two …