Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 90, No. 5 (2016), pp. 888-909 (22 pages) Systematic revision of the Late Ordovician brachiopod genera Eochonetes Reed, 1917 and Thaerodonta Wang, 1949 was conducted ...

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 ...

From the beginning of the Ordovician, marine life began its great radiation, which was characterized by the rapid appearance of new orders, families, and genera, together with the replacement of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stratigraphic framework and time slices / Barry D. Webby ... [et al.] -- Calibration of the Ordovician timescale / Peter M. Sadler, Roger A. Cooper -- Measures of diversity / Roger A. Cooper -- Major ...

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 ...