The latest Ordovician Hirnantian brachiopod faunas: new global insights

J Rong, DAT Harper, B Huang, R Li, X Zhang… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The temporal and spatial distribution of Hirnantian brachiopod faunas are reviewed based
on a new, comprehensive dataset from over 20 palaeoplates and terranes, a revised …

Global marine redox evolution from the late Neoproterozoic to the early Paleozoic constrained by the integration of Mo and U isotope records

GY Wei, NJ Planavsky, T He, F Zhang, RG Stockey… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The emergence and diversification of early animals is commonly thought to have coincided
with atmosphere and ocean oxygenation across the terminal Neoproterozoic and early …

Basin-scale reconstruction of euxinia and Late Devonian mass extinctions

SK Sahoo, GJ Gilleaudeau, K Wilson, B Hart… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Devonian–Carboniferous transition marks a fundamental shift in the surface
environment primarily related to changes in ocean–atmosphere oxidation states,, resulting …

A long-term record of early to mid-Paleozoic marine redox change

EA Sperling, MJ Melchin, T Fraser, RG Stockey… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The extent to which Paleozoic oceans differed from Neoproterozoic oceans and the causal
relationship between biological evolution and changing environmental conditions are …

Vertical decoupling in Late Ordovician anoxia due to reorganization of ocean circulation

A Pohl, Z Lu, W Lu, RG Stockey, M Elrick, M Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Geochemical redox proxies indicate that seafloor anoxia occurred during the latest
Ordovician glacial maximum, coincident with the second pulse of the Late Ordovician mass …

Sustained increases in atmospheric oxygen and marine productivity in the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic eras

RG Stockey, DB Cole, UC Farrell, H Agić, TH Boag… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
A geologically rapid Neoproterozoic oxygenation event is commonly linked to the
appearance of marine animal groups in the fossil record. However, there is still debate about …

Redox changes in the outer Yangtze Sea (South China) through the Hirnantian Glaciation and their implications for the end-Ordovician biocrisis

N Li, C Li, TJ Algeo, M Cheng, C Jin, G Zhu, J Fan… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Two pulses of faunal mortality occurred during the Late Ordovician mass extinction (ca. 445
Ma). This biocrisis is recorded in Hirnantian strata of South China as a stepwise extinction of …

Oceanic anoxia and extinction in the latest Ordovician

M Liu, D Chen, L Jiang, RG Stockey, D Aseal… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Ordovician (Hirnantian) mass extinction (LOME) was marked by two
discrete pulses of high species turnover rates attributed to glacial cooling (LOME-1) and …

Molybdenum isotope-based redox deviation driven by continental margin euxinia during the early Cambrian

Z Qin, D Xu, B Kendall, X Zhang, Q Ou, X Wang… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Oceanic redox changes may be a key environmental trigger for the “Cambrian explosion”.
However, a hypothesized predominantly oxygenated early Cambrian ocean, inferred from …

Rapid marine oxygen variability: Driver of the Late Ordovician mass extinction

NP Kozik, SA Young, SM Newby, M Liu, D Chen… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The timing and connections between global cooling, marine redox conditions, and biotic
turnover are underconstrained for the Late Ordovician. The second most severe mass …