Modern-day Ohio is more than 600 kilometers from the ocean - yet it has thousands of ocean fossils dating back to the ...

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The end-Ordovician was an enigmatic interval in the Phanerozoic, known for massive glaciation potentially at elevated CO 2 levels, biogeochemical cycle disruptions recorded as large isotope anomalies ...

One of Earth's most consequential bursts of biodiversity—a 30-million-year period of explosive evolutionary changes spawning innumerable new species—may have the most modest of creatures to thank for ...

Subsurface Ordovician rocks in the Black Warrior Basin, Mississippi Embayment, and the eastern part of the Arkoma Basin reflect a different depositional history than coeval rocks exposed in the ...

Over half a billion years ago, during the Cambrian geological period, life on Earth started to get a lot more interesting. Thanks to the rise in free oxygen generated mostly by photosynthesizing algae ...

Thirty-two species of Ostracoda, 15 of them new, including three new genera, are described from the early Middle Ordovician of the eastern United States. Two ostracode zones are represented, and a ...

Fossils from 465 million years ago recently discovered in Portugal have revealed the huge size reached by trilobites, the most diverse group of extinct marine arthropods. Geologists describe the ...

During the Ordovician period, the concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere was about eight times higher than today. It has been hard to explain why the climate cooled and why the ...

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