New palaeogeographical reconstructions for the earlier Ordovician (480 Ma), and later
Ordovician (450 Ma) integrate revised longitude-calibrated palaeomagnetic reconstructions …

Abstract The Ordovician Period records an extraordinary biodiversity increase known as the
Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE), which coincided with a series of …

Using full-colour palaeogeographical maps from the Cambrian to the present, this
interdisciplinary volume explains how plate motions and surface volcanism are linked to …

The spatial coverage and temporal resolution of the Early Paleozoic paleoclimate record are
limited, primarily due to the paucity of well-preserved skeletal material commonly used for …

Abstract The Cambrian 'Explosion', located by many authors between 540 and 520 million
years ago (Ma), is considered to be an abrupt appearance in the fossil record of most animal …

The Ordovician biodiversification has been recognized since the 1960s; the term 'The Great
Ordovician Biodiversification Event', abbreviated by many as the 'GOBE', has been used for …

The greatest relative changes in marine biodiversity accumulation occurred during the Early
Paleozoic. The precision of temporal constraints on these changes is crude, hampering our …

The Paleozoic emergence of terrestrial plants has been linked to a stepwise increase in
Earth's O 2 levels and a cooling of Earth's climate by drawdown of atmospheric CO 2 …

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 …

The Ordovician biodiversification is considered one of the most significant radiations in the
marine ecosystems of the entire Phanerozoic. Originally recognized as the 'Ordovician …