Early Palaeozoic diversifications and extinctions in the marine biosphere: a continuum of change

The Furongian (late Cambrian) Biodiversity Gap: Real or apparent?

(2019) David A.T. Harper et al.   Palaeoworld

Mercury Spikes Indicate a Volcanic Trigger for the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction Event: An Example from a Deep Shelf of the Peri-Baltic Region

(2019) Justyna Smolarek-Lach et al.   Scientific Reports

The Qingjiang biota—A Burgess Shale–type fossil Lagerstätte from the early Cambrian of South China

(2019) Dongjing Fu et al.   SCIENCE

Cascading trend of Early Paleozoic marine radiations paused by Late Ordovician extinctions

(2019) Christian M. Ø. Rasmussen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Trilobite evolutionary rates constrain the duration of the Cambrian explosion

(2019) John R. Paterson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The end-Ordovician mass extinction: A single-pulse event?

(2019) Guangxu Wang et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

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

(2019) Alycia L. Stigall et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Timing and periodicity of Phanerozoic marine biodiversity and environmental change

(2019) Gareth G. Roberts et al.   Scientific Reports

The Sirius Passet Lagerstätte of North Greenland: a remote window on the Cambrian Explosion

(2019) David A. T. Harper et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

The Invasion Hierarchy: Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Invasions in the Fossil Record

(2019) Alycia L. Stigall   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The evolutionary dynamics of the early Palaeozoic marine biodiversity accumulation

(2019) Björn Kröger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Geochronological constraint on the Cambrian Chengjiang biota, South China

(2018) Chuan Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Contextualizing the Onset of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

(2018) David A.T. Harper et al.   LETHAIA

The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE): definition, concept and duration

(2018) Thomas Servais et al.   LETHAIA

Ediacaran Extinction and Cambrian Explosion

(2018) Simon A.F. Darroch et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Waptia fieldensis Walcott, a mandibulate arthropod from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale

(2018) Jean Vannier et al.   Royal Society Open Science

History is written by the victors: The effect of the push of the past on the fossil record

(2018) Graham E. Budd et al.   EVOLUTION

The two phases of the Cambrian Explosion

(2018) Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev et al.   Scientific Reports

Diversity dynamics of Ordovician Bryozoa

(2017) Andrej Ernst   LETHAIA

How is biodiversity produced? Examining speciation processes during the GOBE

(2017) Alycia L. Stigall   LETHAIA

Age calibration of the Lower Ordovician Fezouata Lagerstätte, Morocco

(2017) Bertrand Lefebvre et al.   LETHAIA

The dawn of a dynasty: life strategies of Cambrian and Ordovician brachiopods

(2017) Timothy P. Topper et al.   LETHAIA

RNames, a stratigraphical database designed for the statistical analysis of fossil occurrences – the Ordovician diversification as a case study

(2017) B Kröger et al.   PALAEONTOLOGIA ELECTRONICA

Brachiopods: origin and early history

(2017) David A. T. Harper et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

High dependence of Ordovician ocean surface circulation on atmospheric CO 2 levels

(2016) Alexandre Pohl et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The onset of the ‘Ordovician Plankton Revolution’ in the late Cambrian

(2016) Thomas Servais et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Greenhouse−icehouse transition in the Late Ordovician marks a step change in extinction regime in the marine plankton

(2016) James S. Crampton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2016) Christian M. Ø. Rasmussen et al.   Scientific Reports

Origins of Biodiversity

(2016) Michael J. Benton   PLOS BIOLOGY

Minerals in the gut: scoping a Cambrian digestive system

(2016) K. M. Strang et al.   Royal Society Open Science

The Cambrian explosion

(2015) Derek E.G. Briggs   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Phytoplankton dynamics from the Cambrian Explosion to the onset of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: A review of Cambrian acritarch diversity

(2015) Hendrik Nowak et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Anomalocaridid trunk limb homology revealed by a giant filter-feeder with paired flaps

(2015) Peter Van Roy et al.   NATURE

Diversity partitioning during the Cambrian radiation

(2015) Lin Na et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2015) David A.T. Harper et al.   Palaeoworld

Calibration of a conodont apatite-based Ordovician87Sr/86Sr curve to biostratigraphy and geochronology: Implications for stratigraphic resolution

(2014) Matthew R. Saltzman et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Geobiodiversity Database (GBDB) in stratigraphic, palaeontological and palaeogeographic research: graptolites as an example

(2014) Junxuan Fan et al.   GFF

Possible oceanic circulation patterns, surface water currents and upwelling zones in the Early Palaeozoic

(2014) Thomas Servais et al.   GFF

A suspension-feeding anomalocarid from the Early Cambrian

(2014) Jakob Vinther et al.   NATURE

End Ordovician extinctions: A coincidence of causes

(2013) David A.T. Harper et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Causes of the Cambrian Explosion

(2013) M. P. Smith et al.   SCIENCE

Biodiversity tracks temperature over time

(2012) P. J. Mayhew et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Modeling the early Paleozoic long-term climatic trend

(2011) E. Nardin et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Did the amalgamation of continents drive the end Ordovician mass extinctions?

(2011) Christian M.Ø. Rasmussen et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Pulse of atmospheric oxygen during the late Cambrian

(2011) M. R. Saltzman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type

(2010) Peter Van Roy et al.   NATURE

Did a Katian large igneous province trigger the Late Ordovician glaciation?

(2010) Vincent Lefebvre et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Unravelling extrinsic and intrinsic factors of the early Palaeozoic diversification of blastozoan echinoderms

(2010) Elise Nardin et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Ordovician and Silurian sea–water chemistry, sea level, and climate: A synopsis

(2010) Axel Munnecke et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE): The palaeoecological dimension

(2010) Thomas Servais et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The Shifting Balance of Diversity Among Major Marine Animal Groups

(2010) J. Alroy   SCIENCE

A major drop in seawater 87Sr/86Sr during the Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian): Links to volcanism and climate?

(2009) Seth A. Young et al.   GEOLOGY

The Devonian nekton revolution

(2009) CHRISTIAN KLUG et al.   LETHAIA

The Cambrian Kalkarindji Large Igneous Province: Extent and characteristics based on new 40Ar/39Ar and geochemical data

(2009) Lena Z. Evins et al.   LITHOS

The Origin and Initial Rise of Pelagic Cephalopods in the Ordovician

(2009) Björn Kröger et al.   PLoS One

Animal evolution, bioturbation, and the sulfate concentration of the oceans

(2009) D. E. Canfield et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Palaeozoic calcareous plankton: evidence from the Silurian of Gotland

(2008) AXEL MUNNECKE et al.   LETHAIA

The Ordovician Biodiversification: revolution in the oceanic trophic chain

(2008) THOMAS SERVAIS et al.   LETHAIA

The new chronostratigraphic classification of the Ordovician System and its relations to major regional series and stages and to δ13C chemostratigraphy

(2008) STIG M. BERGSTRÖM et al.   LETHAIA

Are global Phanerozoic marine diversity curves truly global? A study of the relationship between regional rock records and global Phanerozoic marine diversity

(2008) Alistair J. McGowan et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Phanerozoic Trends in the Global Diversity of Marine Invertebrates

(2008) J. Alroy et al.   SCIENCE

Did Cooling Oceans Trigger Ordovician Biodiversification? Evidence from Conodont Thermometry

(2008) J. A. Trotter et al.   SCIENCE

A Chronology of Paleozoic Sea-Level Changes

(2008) B. U. Haq et al.   SCIENCE

A long-term association between global temperature and biodiversity, origination and extinction in the fossil record

(2007) P. J Mayhew et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES