Detrital zircon geochronology and processes in accretionary wedges

J Žák, M Svojtka, J Hajná, L Ackerman - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
The detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology has been widely employed to analyze accretionary
wedges over the past decade. The goal of this paper is, first, to briefly review this rapidly …

The Ordovician of Scandinavia: a revised regional stage classification

AT Nielsen, P Ahlberg, JOR Ebbestad… - Geological Society …, 2023 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract The Ordovician of Scandinavia (ie Denmark, Norway and Sweden) has been
investigated for over two centuries and, through time, various chronostratigraphic schemes …

New constraints from detrital zircon ages on prolonged, multiphase transition from the Cadomian accretionary orogen to a passive margin of Gondwana

J Hajná, J Žák, W Dörr, V Kachlík, J Sláma - Precambrian Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Avalonian–Cadomian belt formed as a collage of accretionary complexes,
island arcs, and sedimentary basins along the northern margin of Gondwana during the …

Ordovician of the Bohemian Massif

P Kraft, U Linnemann, M Mergl, J Bruthansová, L Laibl… - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The lower Paleozoic succession of central Europe exposed in the Bohemian Massif is a
classic area of geology with a long-standing tradition of research dating back to the …

[HTML][HTML] Addressing the Chengjiang conundrum: A palaeoecological view on the rarity of hurdiid radiodonts in this most diverse early Cambrian Lagerstätte

Y Wu, S Pates, J Ma, W Lin, Y Wu, X Zhang, D Fu - Geoscience Frontiers, 2022 - Elsevier
Over one hundred arthropod fossil species have been described from the famous
Chengjiang Lagerstätte (South China, Cambrian Stage 3, ca. 518 Ma) including a diverse …

Cambrian sedimentary basins of northern Gondwana as geodynamic markers of incipient opening of the Rheic Ocean

R Syahputra, J Žák, RD Nance - Gondwana Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Diachronous opening of the Rheic Ocean and separation of Avalonian–Cadomian terranes
from Gondwana began with a change from an active to passive margin in the late Ediacaran …

[HTML][HTML] Five new malformed trilobites from Cambrian and Ordovician deposits from the Natural History Museum

RDC Bicknell, PM Smith - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Injured trilobites present insight into how a completely extinct group of arthropods
responded to traumatic experiences, such as failed predation and moulting complications …

Epibionts on shells in the Šárka Formation: a sparsely occupied niche in the lower to middle Darriwilian (Oretanian, Ordovician) in the Prague Basin (Czech Republic)

O Zicha, J Bruthansová, P Kraft - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Epizoic invertebrates attached to shells are a rare component of the fauna of the Šárka
Formation (Middle Ordovician; early to middle Darriwilian) of the Prague Basin (Barrandian …

Benthic graptolites (Graptolithina, Pterobranchia) in the Miaolingian (Cambrian Series 3)

J Maletz - Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 2024 - Springer
Benthic graptolites (Graptolithina) were surprisingly common and diverse in the Miaolingian
(Cambrian), but have rarely been described in detail. Encrusting and erect growing colonies …

A unique case of healed injury in a Cambrian trilobite

O Fatka, P Budil, L Grigar - Annales de Paléontologie, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The middle Cambrian Jince Formation of the Příbram–Jince Basin is globally
renowned as a classical repository of well-preserved skeletal marine fauna, including …