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 …

End Ordovician extinctions: a coincidence of causes

DAT Harper, EU Hammarlund, CMØ Rasmussen - Gondwana Research, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The end Ordovician (Hirnantian) extinction was the first of the five big Phanerozoic
extinction events, and the first that involved metazoan-based communities. It comprised two …

Applying sedimentary geochemical proxies for paleoenvironment interpretation of organic-rich shale deposition in the Sichuan Basin, China

J Zhao, Z Jin, Z Jin, Y Geng, X Wen, C Yan - International Journal of Coal …, 2016 - Elsevier
Depositional environment highly affects the geochemical feature of sediments recording the
information of paleoenvironment and its evolution. Geochemical data for Ordovician Wufeng …

[PDF][PDF] 华南奥陶-志留系龙马溪组黑色笔石页岩的生物地层学

樊隽轩, MJ Melchin, 陈旭, 王怿, 张元动, 陈清… - 中国科学: 地球 …, 2012 - academia.edu
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Large-scale climatic fluctuations in the latest Ordovician on the Yangtze block, south China

D Yan, D Chen, Q Wang, J Wang - Geology, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Ordovician-Silurian transition was a critical interval in Earth's history marked by
dramatic climatic, oceanic, and biological turnovers. Here we present the chemical index of …

Environmental changes in the Late Ordovician–early Silurian: Review and new insights from black shales and nitrogen isotopes

MJ Melchin, CE Mitchell, C Holmden, P Štorch - Bulletin, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Late Ordovician (Katian-Hirnantian) through earliest Silurian (Rhuddanian)
interval was a time of varying climate and sea level, marked by a peak glacial episode in the …

Worms and gills, plates and spines: the evolutionary origins and incredible disparity of deuterostomes revealed by fossils, genes, and development

K Nanglu, SR Cole, DF Wright, C Souto - Biological Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Deuterostomes are the major division of animal life which includes sea stars, acorn worms,
and humans, among a wide variety of ecologically and morphologically disparate taxa …

The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Hirnantian Stage (the uppermost of the Ordovician System)

X Chen, J Rong, J Fan, R Zhan, CE Mitchell… - Episodes Journal of …, 2006 - episodes.org
Abstract The Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the
Hirnantian Stage (the uppermost of the Ordovician System) is defined at a point 0.39 m …

Graptolites as fossil geo-thermometers and source material of hydrocarbons: An overview of four decades of progress

Q Luo, G Fariborz, N Zhong, Y Wang, N Qiu… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The thermal maturity of lower Paleozoic graptolite-bearing marine sediments, which host
many hydrocarbon deposits worldwide, has long been difficult to determine due to the …

Graptolite-derived organic matter in the Wufeng–Longmaxi Formations (Upper Ordovician–Lower Silurian) of southeastern Chongqing, China: Implications for gas …

Q Luo, N Zhong, N Dai, W Zhang - International Journal of Coal Geology, 2016 - Elsevier
The organic-rich shales of the Wufeng–Longmaxi Formations (Ordovician-Silurian) are one
of the most important hydrocarbon source rocks and shale gas exploration targets in China …