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 …

In this chapter, starting with a brief review of the research history and current status in the
studies of the Ordovician chronostratigraphy in China, the subdivision of the Ordovician …

The Ordovician rocks on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau represent the oldest non-metamorphic
strata, and are critical to understanding the history of regional geology and biotic evolution of …

China presently comprises several independent tectonic palaeoplates or terranes and parts
of other blocks, which have been assembled over geological time. In the Ordovician, these …

Abstract Middle to Late Ordovician cephalopod occurrence data from South China and
adjacent terranes in the northeastern peri-Gondwana region are used to define …

This paper describes the Ordovician stratigraphy of the Sibumasu Block, which formed part
of equatorial peri-Gondwana during the early Paleozoic, and summarizes the …

The Ordovician System in the Levant region (Middle East) and southern Turkey: review of
depositional facies, fauna and stratigraphy | A Global Synthesis of the Ordovician System: Part …

A new, latest Ordovician brachiopod fauna is systematically described from the Hwe Mawng
Purple Shale Member (Hirnantian) of the Naungkangyi Group of the Pa-thin area, Mandalay …

A new, high-diversity, latest Ordovician brachiopod fauna of nearly 800 brachiopod
specimens was collected from the Wanyaoshu Formation (Hirnantian) in the Shaodihe …

The nautiloid cephalopod Sinoceras chinense (Foord, 1888) was previously only known
from the Upper Ordovician of Chinese blocks/terranes. Here, we document the first …