No (Cambrian) explosion and no (Ordovician) event: A single long-term radiation in the early Palaeozoic

Palaeoecology of Cambrian–Ordovician acritarchs from China: evidence for a progressive invasion of the marine habitats

(2022) Longlong Shan et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Continental configuration controls ocean oxygenation during the Phanerozoic

(2022) Alexandre Pohl et al.   NATURE

Understanding the early Paleozoic carbon cycle balance and climate change from modelling

(2022) Chloé M. Marcilly et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A review of Paleozoic phytoplankton biodiversity: Driver for major evolutionary events?

(2022) David M. Kroeck et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: The earth’s changing climate during the last 540 million years

(2021) Christopher R. Scotese et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Timing and patterns of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event and Late Ordovician mass extinction: Perspectives from South China

(2021) Yiying Deng et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Uneven spatial sampling distorts reconstructions of Phanerozoic seawater temperature

(2021) Lewis A. Jones et al.   GEOLOGY

The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE) is Not a Single Event

(2021) Thomas Servais et al.   PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH

A high-resolution summary of Cambrian to Early Triassic marine invertebrate biodiversity

(2020) Jun-xuan Fan et al.   SCIENCE

The apparent exponential radiation of Phanerozoic land vertebrates is an artefact of spatial sampling biases

(2020) Roger A. Close et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Quantifying ecospace utilization and ecosystem engineering during the early Phanerozoic—The role of bioturbation and bioerosion

(2020) Luis A. Buatois et al.   Science Advances

Mapping paleocoastlines and continental flooding during the Phanerozoic

(2020) Ádám T. Kocsis et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

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

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

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

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 evolutionary dynamics of the early Palaeozoic marine biodiversity accumulation

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

An extraterrestrial trigger for the mid-Ordovician ice age: Dust from the breakup of the L-chondrite parent body

(2019) Birger Schmitz et al.   Science Advances

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

(2019) David A.T. Harper et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

A multidisciplinary perspective on the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event and the development of the early Paleozoic world

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

COPSE reloaded: An improved model of biogeochemical cycling over Phanerozoic time

(2018) Timothy M. Lenton et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Macrostrat: A Platform for Geological Data Integration and Deep-Time Earth Crust Research

(2018) Shanan E. Peters et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

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

The Palaeozoic colonization of the water column and the rise of global nekton

(2018) Christopher D. Whalen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ediacaran Extinction and Cambrian Explosion

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

Ordovician and Silurian ichnofossils from carbonate facies in Estonia: a collection-based review

(2018) Ursula Toom et al.   Palaeoworld

Stepwise oxygenation of the Paleozoic atmosphere

(2018) Alexander J. Krause et al.   Nature Communications

Links between early Paleozoic oxygenation and the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE): A review

(2018) Cole T. Edwards   Palaeoworld

The two phases of the Cambrian Explosion

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

Modelling the long-term carbon cycle, atmospheric CO2, and Earth surface temperature from late Neoproterozoic to present day

(2018) Benjamin J.W. Mills et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

A deep root for the Cambrian explosion: Implications of new bio- and chemostratigraphy from the Siberian Platform

(2017) M. Zhu et al.   GEOLOGY

Changes in the latitudinal diversity gradient during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

(2017) Björn Kröger   GEOLOGY

Biotic immigration events, speciation, and the accumulation of biodiversity in the fossil record

(2017) Alycia L. Stigall et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Diversity dynamics of Ordovician Bryozoa

(2017) Andrej Ernst   LETHAIA

Age calibration of the Lower Ordovician Fezouata Lagerstätte, Morocco

(2017) Bertrand Lefebvre et al.   LETHAIA

Possible patterns of marine primary productivity during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

(2017) Alexandre Pohl et al.   LETHAIA

CHITDB: a database for documenting and analysing diversification of Ordovician-Silurian chitinozoans in the Baltic region

(2017) Olle Hints et al.   LETHAIA

Oxygenation as a driver of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

(2017) Cole T. Edwards et al.   Nature Geoscience

Plate tectonic regulation of global marine animal diversity

(2017) Andrew Zaffos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Refined Ordovician timescale reveals no link between asteroid breakup and biodiversification

(2017) A. Lindskog et al.   Nature Communications

Survival of Burgess Shale-type animals in a Middle Ordovician deep-water setting

(2016) Thomas W. Hearing et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

What sparked the Cambrian explosion?

(2016) Douglas Fox   NATURE

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

Co-evolution of oceans, climate, and the biosphere during the ‘Ordovician Revolution’: A review

(2016) Thomas J. Algeo 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

Apparent changes in the Ordovician–Mississippian plant diversity

(2016) Borja Cascales-Miñana   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Plant evolution and terrestrialization during Palaeozoic times—The phylogenetic context

(2016) Philippe Gerrienne et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

High potential for weathering and climate effects of non-vascular vegetation in the Late Ordovician

(2016) P. Porada et al.   Nature Communications

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

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

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

Sustained Mesozoic–Cenozoic diversification of marine Metazoa: A consistent signal from the fossil record

(2015) Andrew M. Bush et al.   GEOLOGY

Diversity partitioning during the Cambrian radiation

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

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

Paleozoic oil/gas shale reservoirs in southern Tunisia: An overview

(2014) Mohamed Soua   JOURNAL OF AFRICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Birth and early evolution of metazoans

(2013) Degan Shu et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Geobiodiversity Database: a comprehensive section-based integration of stratigraphic and paleontological data

(2013) Junxuan Fan et al.   NEWSLETTERS ON STRATIGRAPHY

Causes of the Cambrian Explosion

(2013) M. P. Smith et al.   SCIENCE

First plants cooled the Ordovician

(2012) Timothy M. Lenton et al.   Nature Geoscience

Phanerozoic marine diversity: rock record modelling provides an independent test of large-scale trends

(2012) A. B. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Modeling the early Paleozoic long-term climatic trend

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

A Revised 87Sr/86Sr Curve for the Silurian: Implications for Global Ocean Chemistry and the Silurian Timescale

(2011) Bradley D. Cramer et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

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

The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Revised correlation of Silurian Provincial Series of North America with global and regional chronostratigraphic units and δ13Ccarb chemostratigraphy

(2010) BRADLEY D. CRAMER et al.   LETHAIA

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

Polar front shift and atmospheric CO2 during the glacial maximum of the Early Paleozoic Icehouse

(2010) T. R. A. Vandenbroucke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Shifting Balance of Diversity Among Major Marine Animal Groups

(2010) J. Alroy   SCIENCE

High-resolution, early Paleozoic (Ordovician-Silurian) time scales

(2009) P. M. Sadler et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

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

Biodiversity patterns of Ordovician marine microphytoplankton from Baltica: Comparison with other fossil groups and sea-level changes

(2009) Olle Hints et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

A Great Revolution of the Earth-Surface Environment: Linking the Bio-Invasion Onto the Land and the Ordovician Radiation of Marine Organisms

(2009) Fujio Masuda et al.   PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH

The Origin and Initial Rise of Pelagic Cephalopods in the Ordovician

(2009) Björn Kröger et al.   PLoS One

The Ordovician Biodiversification: revolution in the oceanic trophic chain

(2008) THOMAS SERVAIS 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