Coordinated biotic and abiotic change during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Darriwilian assembly of early Paleozoic building blocks

AL Stigall, CT Edwards, RL Freeman… - Palaeogeography …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ordovician Period records an extraordinary biodiversity increase known as the
Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE), which coincided with a series of …

Co-evolution of oceans, climate, and the biosphere during the 'Ordovician Revolution': a review

TJ Algeo, PJ Marenco, MR Saltzman - Palaeogeography …, 2016 - Elsevier
The Ordovician Period (~ 485-444 Ma) was an interval of major, causally interconnected 15
changes in the Earth's biotic, climatic, and environmental systems. The diversity of marine …

Large–scale heterogeneity of the fossil record: implications for Phanerozoic biodiversity studies

AB Smith - … Transactions of the Royal Society of London …, 2001 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Patterns of origination, extinction and standing diversity through time have been inferred
from tallies of taxa preserved in the fossil record. This approach assumes that sampling of …

Origination and extinction through the Phanerozoic: a new approach

M Foote - The Journal of Geology, 2003 - journals.uchicago.edu
Temporal patterns of origination and extinction are essential components of many
paleontological studies, but it has been difficult to obtain accurate rate estimates because …

The quality of the fossil record: a sequence stratigraphic perspective

SM Holland - Paleobiology, 2000 - cambridge.org
As paleobiology continues to address an ever broader array of questions, it becomes
increasingly important to interpret confidently the meaning of the pattern of fossil …

Gradient ecology of a biotic invasion: biofacies of the type Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician), Cincinnati, Ohio region, USA

SM Holland, ME Patzkowsky - Palaios, 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Recent studies have emphasized that faunal change is typically brief and most commonly
occurs at sequence boundaries and major flooding surfaces. The Upper Ordovician of the …

Katian (Upper Ordovician) δ13C chemostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy in the United States and Baltoscandia: a regional comparison

SM Bergström, S Young, B Schmitz - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2010 - Elsevier
δ13C values of numerous limestone samples from Katian (Upper Ordovician) successions in
Oklahoma and the Upper Mississippi Valley document the presence of at least three of the …

Marine diversity through the Phanerozoic: problems and prospects

AB Smith - Journal of the Geological Society, 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The fossil record provides direct evidence of how diversity has changed over time, but
cannot be taken at face value. Diversity curves constructed from counting taxa in the rock …

Dispersal in the Ordovician: speciation patterns and paleobiogeographic analyses of brachiopods and trilobites

AR Lam, AL Stigall, NJ Matzke - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Middle to Late Ordovician was a time of profound biotic diversification,
paleoecological change, and major climate shifts. Yet studies examining speciation …

Late Middle Ordovician environmental change and extinction: Harbinger of the Late Ordovician or continuation of Cambrian patterns?

ME Patzkowsky, LM Slupik, MA Arthur… - …, 1997 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Positive excursions in carbon isotope compositions of carbonate (∼ 3‰) and organic
carbon (∼ 4‰–6‰) from the late Middle Ordovician (middle Caradocian) of the …