Hitherto undescribed inarticulate brachiopods associated with Lapworth's famous late Ordovician graptolitic shale succession at Dob's Linn, Scotland, are shown to belong to a single highly distinctive ...

Linguliform brachiopods were recovered from the Upper Cambrian Downes Point Member (lower Sunwaptan) and from the Middle Ordovician Factory Cove Member (Arenig) of the Shallow Bay Formation, Cow Head ...

We document three aspects of microbialite resurgence that followed the Late Ordovician extinction event (LOEE) using centimetre-scale sedimentological logs of carbonate rocks deposited on the shelf ...

Rich brachiopod fossils dating back 470 million years to the Ordovician period were discovered in Zigui county, Central China's Hubei Province. Experts suggest these fossils provide evidence for ...

Fossils from the Cincinnati area are renowned for their abundance, variety and ease of collecting. The animals that produced those fossils lived at the end of the Ordovician Period 450 million years ...

Nikitina, O. I., Popov, L. E., Neuman, R. B., Bassett, M. G., and Holmer, L. E. 2006. "Mid Ordovician (Darriwilian) brachiopods of South Kazakhstan." In Studies in ...

Fossils from 465 million years ago recently discovered in Portugal have revealed the huge size reached by trilobites, the most diverse group of extinct marine arthropods. Geologists describe the ...

Over half a billion years ago, during the Cambrian geological period, life on Earth started to get a lot more interesting. Thanks to the rise in free oxygen generated mostly by photosynthesizing algae ...