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

Abstract The Iapetus Ocean was the first ancient ocean to be identified following the
development of plate tectonics; its history has been fundamental in relating orogenesis and …

The eastern equatorial Pacific cold tongue (EEP-CT) today asserts a vital influence on
ocean-atmosphere CO 2 exchange and global climate patterns. Here, we report a similar …

Abstract The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE) laid the foundation for
present-day biodiversity levels and set an agenda for marine life against a background of …

Abstract The Middle to Late Ordovician was a time of profound biotic diversification,
paleoecological change, and major climate shifts. Yet studies examining speciation …

Abstract Biotic Immigration Events in which a group of organisms that originated in one
geographic region invade and become established in a new geographic region are common …

Three tectonic events affected the northern margin of Laurentia between Early Ordovician
and Early Devonian time. Each tectonic cycle started with an unconformity followed by rapid …

Echinoderms make up a substantial component of Ordovician marine invertebrates, yet their
speciation and dispersal history as inferred within a rigorous phylogenetic and statistical …

The Late Ordovician (late Katian) Tcherskidium fauna consisted of large-and thick-shelled
virgianid pentamerid brachiopods characterized by large and ribbed shells of Tcherskidium …

The decimeter-scale 3-D network structure of the Upper Ordovician Pagoda Formation in
South China has been an enigmatic sedimentary feature and a case of non-uniformitarian …