LAWRENCE -- A clutch of marine fossil specimens unearthed in northern Portugal that lived between 470 and 459 million years ago is filling a gap in understanding evolution during the Middle Ordovician ...

An unusually well-preserved "Marine Dwarf World" from 462 million years ago was found at Castle Bank, Wales by a team led by the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy ...

Two new genera and five new species of ostracodes are described from the Middle Ordovician Bromide formation of Oklahoma. Distinctive dimorphism in these forms is also discussed. Journal Information ...

The Ordovician Period stands as a critical chapter in Earth's geological history, with carbon isotope records serving as both a key tool for stratigraphic correlation and a vital archive to unravel ...

Astraeospongia dixonensis n. sp., based upon eleven isolated octactinellid sponge spicules, occurs in Middle Ordovician rocks of Dixon, Illinois. The genus has previously been known in North America ...

Scientists have found that oxygen levels appear to increase by roughly 80 percent at about the same time as a three-fold increase in biodiversity during the Ordovician Period, between 445 and 485 ...

Marine fossil specimens unearthed in northern Portugal are filling a gap in understanding evolution during the Middle Ordovician period. A clutch of marine fossil specimens unearthed in northern ...