Coordinated biotic and abiotic change during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Darriwilian assembly of early Paleozoic building blocks

AL Stigall, CT Edwards, RL Freeman… - Palaeogeography …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ordovician Period records an extraordinary biodiversity increase known as the
Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE), which coincided with a series of …

The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: reviewing two decades of research on diversity's big bang illustrated by mainly brachiopod data

DAT Harper, RB Zhan, J Jin - Palaeoworld, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …

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 …

Onset of main Phanerozoic marine radiation sparked by emerging Mid Ordovician icehouse

CMØ Rasmussen, CV Ullmann, KG Jakobsen… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE) was the most rapid and
sustained increase in marine Phanerozoic biodiversity. What generated this biotic response …

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 …

Middle Ordovician astrochronology decouples asteroid breakup from glacially-induced biotic radiations

JA Rasmussen, N Thibault… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Meso-Cenozoic evidence suggests links between changes in the expression of orbital
changes and millennia-scale climatic-and biotic variations, but proof for such shifts in orbital …

Stable ocean redox during the main phase of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

Á Del Rey, CMØ Rasmussen, M Calner, R Wu… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE) represents the greatest
increase in marine animal biodiversity ever recorded. What caused this transformation is …

Sea-level curve for the Middle to early Late Ordovician in the Armorican Massif (western France): Icehouse third-order glacio-eustatic cycles

MP Dabard, A Loi, F Paris, JF Ghienne, M Pistis… - Palaeogeography …, 2015 - Elsevier
This contribution deals with the Middle to early Late Ordovician of the Armorican Massif
(western France). The aim is to reconstruct a multi-order eustatic curve from the stratigraphic …

High frequency eustatic sea-level changes during the Middle to early Late Ordovician of southern Jordan: Indirect evidence for a Darriwilian Ice Age in Gondwana

BR Turner, HA Armstrong, CR Wilson, IM Makhlouf - Sedimentary Geology, 2012 - Elsevier
The Middle to early Late Ordovician Hiswah and Dubaydib Formations in southern Jordan
provide a well constrained sedimentary record of 4th and 3rd order relative sea level change …

Megascopic processes reflected in the microscopic realm: sedimentary and biotic dynamics of the Middle Ordovician “orthoceratite limestone” at Kinnekulle, Sweden

A Lindskog, ME Eriksson - Gff, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The Middle Ordovician (Dapingian–middle Darriwilian)“orthoceratite limestone” is
documented in its traditional type area at Kinnekulle in the province of Västergötland in …