Timing and patterns of the great Ordovician biodiversification event and Late Ordovician mass extinction: perspectives from South China

Y Deng, J Fan, S Zhang, X Fang, Z Chen, Y Shi… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The early Paleozoic sediments document two major biological events: the Great Ordovician
Biodiversification Event (GOBE) and Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME). Many …

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 …

The great Ordovician biodiversification event (GOBE): definition, concept and duration

T Servais, DAT Harper - Lethaia, 2018 - idunn.no
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 …

Cascading trend of Early Paleozoic marine radiations paused by Late Ordovician extinctions

CMØ Rasmussen, B Kröger… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

Persistent global marine euxinia in the early Silurian

RG Stockey, DB Cole, NJ Planavsky… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The second pulse of the Late Ordovician mass extinction occurred around the Hirnantian-
Rhuddanian boundary (~ 444 Ma) and has been correlated with expanded marine anoxia …

[HTML][HTML] The end-Ordovician mass extinction: a single-pulse event?

G Wang, R Zhan, IG Percival - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
The end-Ordovician mass extinction (EOME) is widely interpreted as consisting of two
pulses associated with the onset and demise of the Gondwana glaciation, respectively, with …

New geochemical identification fingerprints of volcanism during the Ordovician-Silurian transition and its implications for biological and environmental evolution

S Yang, W Hu, J Fan, Y Deng - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Volcanism had been an important factor in several geological events, usually recorded by
volcanic ash layers (bentonites). However, most volcanic eruption materials were dispersed …

[HTML][HTML] Sulfidic anoxia in the oceans during the Late Ordovician mass extinctions–insights from molybdenum and uranium isotopic global redox proxies

TW Dahl, EU Hammarlund, CMØ Rasmussen… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Ordovician Mass Extinction wiped out 85% of animal species in two
phases (LOME1 and LOME2). The kill mechanisms for the extinction phases are debated …

The evolutionary dynamics of the early Palaeozoic marine biodiversity accumulation

B Kröger, F Franeck… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The early Palaeozoic Era records the initial biodiversification of the Phanerozoic. The
increase in biodiversity involved drastic changes in taxon longevity, and in rates of …

Extinction intensity during Ordovician and Cenozoic glaciations explained by cooling and palaeogeography

EE Saupe, H Qiao, Y Donnadieu, A Farnsworth… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
A striking feature of the marine fossil record is the variable intensity of extinction during
superficially similar climate transitions. Here we combine climate models and species trait …