Insights into soft-part preservation from the Early Ordovician Fezouata Biota

F Saleh, R Vaucher, JB Antcliffe, AC Daley… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Fezouata Biota in Morocco is the only Lower Ordovician Lagerstätte yielding a
biologically diverse assemblage in a fully marine environment, whilst also containing …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Hemichordata (Enteropneusta & Pterobranchia, incl. Graptolithina): A review of their fossil preservation as organic material

J Maletz - Bulletin of Geosciences, 2020 - geology.cz
Hemichordata and especially the Pterobranchia (Cephalodiscida and Graptolithina) can be
regarded as useful examples to understand the fossil preservation of organically …

New fossil assemblages from the Early Ordovician Fezouata biota

F Saleh, R Vaucher, M Vidal, KE Hariri, L Laibl… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Fezouata Biota (Morocco) is a unique Early Ordovician fossil assemblage. The
discovery of this biota revolutionized our understanding of Earth's early animal …

Rhabdopleurid epibionts from the Ordovician Fezouata Shale biota and the longevity of cross-phylum interactions

K Nanglu, ME Waskom, JC Richards… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Evidence of interspecific interactions in the fossil record is rare but offers valuable insights
into ancient ecologies. Exceptional fossiliferous sites can preserve complex ecological …

The Bohemo‐Iberian regional chronostratigraphical scale for the Ordovician System and palaeontological correlations within South Gondwana

JC Gutiérrez‐Marco, AA Sá, DC García‐Bellido… - Lethaia, 2017 - idunn.no
The Bohemo‐Iberian regional scale for South Gondwana, involving the 'Mediterranean
Province', comprises five regional stages (Arenigian, Oretanian, Dobrotivian, Berounian and …

Exceptionally preserved soft parts in fossils from the Lower Ordovician of Morocco clarify stylophoran affinities within basal deuterostomes

B Lefebvre, TE Guensburg, ELO Martin, R Mooi… - Geobios, 2019 - Elsevier
The extinct echinoderm clade Stylophora consists of some of the strangest known
deuterostomes. Stylophorans are known from complete, fully articulated skeletal remains …

Babies from the Fezouata Biota: early developmental trilobite stages and their adaptation to high latitudes

L Laibl, HB Drage, F Pérez-Peris, S Schöder, F Saleh… - Geobios, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Lower Ordovician Fezouata Shale is renowned for its exceptionally-preserved
euarthropod fossils including numerous species of trilobites, some of which show remains of …

The Ordovician record of North and West Africa: unravelling sea-level variations, Gondwana tectonics, and the glacial impact

JF Ghienne, H Abdallah, R Deschamps, M Guiraud… - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Ordovician of North and West Africa comprises three main transgressive–
regressive sequences understood as 'second-order'cycles of 10–15 myr duration. Tide-to …

Novel marrellomorph moulting behaviour preserved in the Lower Ordovician Fezouata Shale, Morocco

HB Drage, DA Legg, AC Daley - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Exoskeleton moulting is the process of shedding the old exoskeleton to enable growth,
development and repair, representing a crucial recurrent event in the life histories of all …