An early burst in brachiopod evolution corresponding with significant climatic shifts during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

Did hard substrate taxa diversify prior to the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event?

(2020) Franziska Franeck et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Evidence that more than a third of Paleozoic articulate brachiopod genera (Strophomenata) lived infaunally

(2020) Steven M. Stanley   PALEOBIOLOGY

Impacts of speciation and extinction measured by an evolutionary decay clock

(2020) Jennifer F. Hoyal Cuthill et al.   NATURE

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

Dissecting the paleocontinental and paleoenvironmental dynamics of the great Ordovician biodiversification

(2019) Franziska Franeck et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

On the probabilities of branch durations and stratigraphic gaps in phylogenies of fossil taxa when rates of diversification and sampling vary over time

(2019) Peter J. Wagner   PALEOBIOLOGY

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

Ignoring stratigraphic age uncertainty leads to erroneous estimates of species divergence times under the fossilized birth–death process

(2019) Joëlle Barido-Sottani et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The glacially induced Middle Ordovician rise of the Plectambonitoidea (Brachiopoda) and the phylogenetic placement of the Baltic genus Ukoa

(2019) Mikkel Pedersen et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Evolutionary and biogeographical shifts in response to the Late Ordovician mass extinction

(2018) Curtis R. Congreve et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Early bursts of disparity and the reorganization of character integration

(2018) Peter J. Wagner   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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

A Gondwanan perspective on the Ordovician Radiation constrains its temporal duration and suggests first wave of speciation, fuelled by Cambrian clades

(2017) Jorge Colmenar et al.   LETHAIA

Oxygenation as a driver of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

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

Phenotypic Innovation and Adaptive Constraints in the Evolutionary Radiation of Palaeozoic Crinoids

(2017) David F. Wright   Scientific Reports

Topology, divergence dates, and macroevolutionary inferences vary between different tip-dating approaches applied to fossil theropods (Dinosauria)

(2016) D. W. Bapst et al.   Biology Letters

Inferring node dates from tip dates in fossil Canidae: the importance of tree priors

(2016) Nicholas J. Matzke et al.   Biology Letters

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

(2016) Thomas Servais et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Decoupled evolution of soft and hard substrate communities during the Cambrian Explosion and Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

(2016) Luis A. Buatois 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

Phylogenetic revision of the Strophomenida, a diverse and ecologically important Palaeozoic brachiopod order

(2015) Curtis R. Congreve et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Taxonomy and Phylogeny Can Yield Comparable Results in Comparative Paleontological Analyses

(2015) Laura C. Soul et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

The earliest known strophomenoids (Brachiopoda) from early Middle Ordovician rocks Of South China

(2015) Zhan Renbin et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

The fossilized birth-death process for coherent calibration of divergence-time estimates

(2014) T. A. Heath et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A stochastic rate-calibrated method for time-scaling phylogenies of fossil taxa

(2013) David W. Bapst   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Long-term origination rates are reset only at mass extinctions

(2012) A. Z. Krug et al.   GEOLOGY

Birth-death skyline plot reveals temporal changes of epidemic spread in HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV)

(2012) T. Stadler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Total-Evidence Approach to Dating with Fossils, Applied to the Early Radiation of the Hymenoptera

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Representing supraspecific taxa in higher-level phylogenetic analyses: guidelines for palaeontologists

(2009) STEPHEN L. BRUSATTE   PALAEONTOLOGY

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

Dynamics of origination and extinction in the marine fossil record

(2008) J. Alroy   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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