Marine oxygenation, deoxygenation, and life during the Early Paleozoic: An overview

Variable redox conditions as an evolutionary driver? A multi-basin comparison of redox in the middle and later Cambrian oceans (Drumian-Paibian)

(2021) Matthew A. LeRoy et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Living on the edge: The impact of protracted oxygen stress on life in the Late Devonian

(2021) Diana L. Boyer et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Geochemistry of lower Ordovician microbialites on the Yangtze Platform, South China: Implications for oceanic oxygenation at the onset of the GOBE

(2021) Yuxuan Chen et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The Cambrian Drumian carbon isotope excursion (DICE) in the Keping area of the northwestern Tarim Basin, NW China

(2021) Xiaoqun Yang et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Redox dynamics of later Cambrian oceans

(2021) Benjamin C. Gill et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Extensive marine anoxia associated with the Late Devonian Hangenberg Crisis

(2020) Feifei Zhang et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Influence of paleo-Trade Winds on facies patterns of the Cambrian Shanganning Carbonate Platform, North China

(2020) Chenlin Hu et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

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

(2020) Jun-xuan Fan et al.   SCIENCE

On the co‐evolution of surface oxygen levels and animals

(2020) Devon B. Cole et al.   Geobiology

Late Ordovician mass extinction caused by volcanism, warming, and anoxia, not cooling and glaciation

(2020) David P.G. Bond et al.   GEOLOGY

Marine redox variability from Baltica during extinction events in the latest Ordovician–early Silurian

(2020) Seth A. Young et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Persistent global marine euxinia in the early Silurian

(2020) Richard G. Stockey et al.   Nature Communications

Late Ordovician mass extinction caused by volcanism, warming, and anoxia, not cooling and glaciation: COMMENT

(2020) Charles E. Mitchell et al.   GEOLOGY

New evidence for compaction-driven vertical fluid migration into the Upper Ordovician (Hirnantian) Guanyinqiao bed of south China

(2020) Can Chen et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Life in near-anoxic conditions: A case study of the ichnology and infaunal ecology of Silurian graptolitic black shales from Sardinia, Italy

(2020) Andrea Baucon et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Elevated marine productivity triggered nitrogen limitation on the Yangtze Platform (South China) during the Ordovician-Silurian transition

(2020) Yu Liu et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Integrated sedimentary, biotic, and paleoredox dynamics from multiple localities in southern Laurentia during the late Silurian (Ludfordian) extinction event

(2020) Chelsie N. Bowman et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Oxygen-sensing mechanisms across eukaryotic kingdoms and their roles in complex multicellularity

(2020) Emma U. Hammarlund et al.   SCIENCE

Redox changes in the outer Yangtze Sea (South China) through the Hirnantian Glaciation and their implications for the end-Ordovician biocrisis

(2020) Na Li et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Paleo-environmental changes during the Middle–Late Ordovician transition on the Yangtze Platform, South China and their ecological implications

(2020) Xiang Fang et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Marine carbon and sulfur cycling across the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary in Tarim Block and its implications for paleoenvironmental changes

(2020) Tan Zhang et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Environmental changes revealed by Lower–Middle Ordovician deeper-water marine red beds from the marginal Yangtze Platform, South China: Links to biodiversification

(2020) Xiaocong Luan et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

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

Dissecting the paleocontinental and paleoenvironmental dynamics of the great Ordovician biodiversification

(2019) Franziska Franeck et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Atmosphere oxygen cycling through the Proterozoic and Phanerozoic

(2019) Ross R. Large et al.   MINERALIUM DEPOSITA

Evidence for the development of local anoxia during the Cambrian SPICE event in eastern North America

(2019) Matthew A. LeRoy et al.   Geobiology

Integrated records of environmental change and evolution challenge the Cambrian Explosion

(2019) Rachel Wood et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Geochemical evidence for expansion of marine euxinia during an early Silurian (Llandovery–Wenlock boundary) mass extinction

(2019) Seth A. Young et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Silurian records of carbon and sulfur cycling from Estonia: The importance of depositional environment on isotopic trends

(2019) Jocelyn A. Richardson et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Seawater Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen over the Past 500 Million Years

(2019) Haijun Song et al.   Journal of Earth Science

Possible links between extreme oxygen perturbations and the Cambrian radiation of animals

(2019) Tianchen He et al.   Nature Geoscience

Lipid biomarker and stable isotopic profiles through Early-Middle Ordovician carbonates from Spitsbergen, Norway

(2019) Carina Lee et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Middle–Upper Ordovician (Darriwilian–Sandbian) paired carbon and sulfur isotope stratigraphy from the Appalachian Basin, USA: Implications for dynamic redox conditions spanning the peak of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

(2019) Nevin P. Kozik et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Global events of the Late Paleozoic (Early Devonian to Middle Permian): A review

(2019) Wenkun Qie et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Linking the progressive expansion of reducing conditions to a stepwise mass extinction event in the late Silurian oceans

(2019) Chelsie N. Bowman et al.   GEOLOGY

Atmosphere–ocean oxygen and productivity dynamics during early animal radiations

(2019) Tais W. Dahl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biogenic silica and organic carbon fluxes provide evidence of enhanced marine productivity in the Upper Ordovician-Lower Silurian of South China

(2019) Maliha Zareen Khan et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Intensified Ocean Deoxygenation During the end Devonian Mass Extinction

(2019) Jiangsi Liu et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Stepwise Earth oxygenation is an inherent property of global biogeochemical cycling

(2019) Lewis J. Alcott et al.   SCIENCE

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

Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Review of Remotely Detectable Signs of Life

(2018) Edward W. Schwieterman et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Evidence for local and global redox conditions at an Early Ordovician (Tremadocian) mass extinction

(2018) Cole T. Edwards et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Temperature evolution and the oxygen isotope composition of Phanerozoic oceans from carbonate clumped isotope thermometry

(2018) Gregory A. Henkes et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Spatial variation in Late Ordovician glacioeustatic sea-level change

(2018) Jessica R. Creveling et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

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

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

Ocean euxinia and climate change “double whammy” drove the Late Ordovician mass extinction

(2018) Caineng Zou et al.   GEOLOGY

Marine redox fluctuation as a potential trigger for the Cambrian explosion

(2018) Guang-Yi Wei et al.   GEOLOGY

Equatorial cold-water tongue in the Late Ordovician

(2018) Jisuo Jin et al.   GEOLOGY

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

(2018) Thomas Servais et al.   LETHAIA

Improved efficiency of the biological pump as a trigger for the Late Ordovician glaciation

(2018) Jiaheng Shen et al.   Nature Geoscience

Putative Late Ordovician land plants

(2018) Mariusz A. Salamon et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Abrupt global-ocean anoxia during the Late Ordovician–early Silurian detected using uranium isotopes of marine carbonates

(2018) Rick Bartlett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Thallium isotopes reveal protracted anoxia during the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) associated with volcanism, carbon burial, and mass extinction

(2018) Theodore R. Them et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The timescale of early land plant evolution

(2018) Jennifer L. Morris et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Early Palaeozoic ocean anoxia and global warming driven by the evolution of shallow burrowing

(2018) Sebastiaan van de Velde et al.   Nature Communications

The last common ancestor of animals lacked the HIF pathway and respired in low-oxygen environments

(2018) Daniel B Mills et al.   eLife

An early Cambrian greenhouse climate

(2018) Thomas W. Hearing et al.   Science Advances

Refined control of cell stemness allowed animal evolution in the oxic realm

(2018) Emma U. Hammarlund et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Model based Paleozoic atmospheric oxygen estimates: a revisit to GEOCARBSULF

(2018) Shuang Zhang et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Stepwise oxygenation of the Paleozoic atmosphere

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

Global seawater redox trends during the Late Devonian mass extinction detected using U isotopes of marine limestones

(2018) David A. White et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Temperature-dependent hypoxia explains biogeography and severity of end-Permian marine mass extinction

(2018) Justin L. Penn et al.   SCIENCE

Silurian integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China

(2018) Jiayu Rong et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Ordovician integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China

(2018) Yuandong Zhang et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Cambrian integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China

(2018) Maoyan Zhu et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

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

Records of carbon and sulfur cycling during the Silurian Ireviken Event in Gotland, Sweden

(2018) Catherine V. Rose et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Raman spectral, elemental, crystallinity, and oxygen-isotope variations in conodont apatite during diagenesis

(2017) Lei Zhang et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

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

(2017) M. Zhu et al.   GEOLOGY

Oxygenation as a driver of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

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

Sea level and climatic-induced facies variations in the Middle Cambrian House Range Embayment, western Laurentia

(2017) Emad I. Elfar et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Biostratigraphy and carbon and nitrogen geochemistry of the SPICE event in Cambrian low-grade metamorphic black shale, Southern Norway

(2017) Øyvind Hammer et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Regional depositional changes and their controls on carbon and sulfur cycling across the Ordovician-Silurian boundary, northwestern Guizhou, South China

(2017) Yifan Li et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The climatic significance of Late Ordovician-early Silurian black shales

(2017) A. Pohl et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Decoupling biogeochemical records, extinction, and environmental change during the Cambrian SPICE event

(2017) James D. Schiffbauer et al.   Science Advances

The timetable of evolution

(2017) Andrew H. Knoll et al.   Science Advances

Heterogenous oceanic redox conditions through the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary limited the metazoan zonation

(2017) Junpeng Zhang et al.   Scientific Reports

A molecular and isotopic study of palaeoenvironmental conditions through the middle Cambrian in the Georgina Basin, central Australia

(2016) Anais Pagès et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Paleo-marine environments of the Early Cambrian Yangtze Platform

(2016) Junpeng Zhang et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Euxinia linked to the Cambrian Drumian carbon isotope excursion (DICE) in Australia: Geochemical and chemostratigraphic evidence

(2016) Anais Pagès et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Global and regional controls on marine redox changes across the Ordovician-Silurian boundary in South China

(2016) Yu Liu et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Middle–Late Ordovician (Darriwilian–Sandbian) decoupling of global sulfur and carbon cycles: Isotopic evidence from eastern and southern Laurentia

(2016) Seth A. Young et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Behavior of marine sulfur in the Ordovician

(2016) Linda C. Kah 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

Glacial onset predated Late Ordovician climate cooling

(2016) Alexandre Pohl et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Earth’s oxygen cycle and the evolution of animal life

(2016) Christopher T. Reinhard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Earliest land plants created modern levels of atmospheric oxygen

(2016) Timothy M. Lenton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecological selectivity of the emerging mass extinction in the oceans

(2016) J. L. Payne et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Sulfur isotope evidence for low and fluctuating sulfate levels in the Late Devonian ocean and the potential link with the mass extinction event

(2015) Min Sub Sim et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Persistent oceanic anoxia and elevated extinction rates separate the Cambrian and Ordovician radiations

(2015) Matthew R. Saltzman et al.   GEOLOGY

Protracted development of bioturbation through the early Palaeozoic Era

(2015) Lidya G. Tarhan et al.   Nature Geoscience

Cope's rule in the evolution of marine animals

(2015) N. A. Heim et al.   SCIENCE

Metal-induced malformations in early Palaeozoic plankton are harbingers of mass extinction

(2015) Thijs R. A. Vandenbroucke et al.   Nature Communications

Error analysis of CO2 and O2 estimates from the long-term geochemical model GEOCARBSULF

(2014) D. L. Royer et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Uranium isotopes distinguish two geochemically distinct stages during the later Cambrian SPICE event

(2014) Tais W. Dahl et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The rise of oxygen in Earth’s early ocean and atmosphere

(2014) Timothy W. Lyons et al.   NATURE

Carbon isotope (δ13Ccarb) stratigraphy of the Lower–Middle Ordovician (Tremadocian–Darriwilian) in the Great Basin, western United States: Implications for global correlation

(2014) Cole T. Edwards et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Oxygen isotopes from conodont apatite of the midcontinent, US: Implications for Late Ordovician climate evolution

(2014) Page C. Quinton et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Oxygen requirements of the earliest animals

(2014) D. B. Mills et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

End Ordovician extinctions: A coincidence of causes

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

Sulfur isotopes track the global extent and dynamics of euxinia during Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2

(2013) J. D. Owens et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

First plants cooled the Ordovician

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

Mechanism for Burgess Shale-type preservation

(2012) R. R. Gaines et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate change and the selective signature of the Late Ordovician mass extinction

(2012) S. Finnegan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Oxygen-isotope trends and seawater temperature changes across the Late Cambrian Steptoean positive carbon-isotope excursion (SPICE event)

(2011) Maya Elrick et al.   GEOLOGY

Sulfur isotope evidence for widespread euxinia and a fluctuating oxycline in Early to Middle Ordovician greenhouse oceans

(2011) Cara K. Thompson 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

The Magnitude and Duration of Late Ordovician-Early Silurian Glaciation

(2011) S. Finnegan et al.   SCIENCE

Phanerozoic Earth System Evolution and Marine Biodiversity

(2011) B. Hannisdal et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Geochemistry of oceanic anoxic events

(2010) Hugh C. Jenkyns   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

The middle Darriwilian (Ordovician) δ13C excursion (MDICE) discovered in the Yangtze Platform succession in China: implications of its first recorded occurrences outside Baltoscandia

(2010) Birger Schmitz et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Geochemical evidence for widespread euxinia in the Later Cambrian ocean

(2010) Benjamin C. Gill et al.   NATURE

The Cambrian Drumian carbon isotope excursion (DICE) in the Great Basin, western United States

(2010) Robyn A. Howley et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

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

(2010) Thomas Servais et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Geographical, environmental and intrinsic biotic controls on Phanerozoic marine diversification

(2010) JOHN ALROY   PALAEONTOLOGY

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

Devonian rise in atmospheric oxygen correlated to the radiations of terrestrial plants and large predatory fish

(2010) T. W. Dahl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Principal aspects of the Ordovician biotic radiation

(2010) YuanDong Zhang et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Phanerozoic atmospheric oxygen: New results using the GEOCARBSULF model

(2009) R. A. Berner   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Evaluating the relationship between the carbon and sulfur cycles in the later Cambrian ocean: An example from the Port au Port Group, western Newfoundland, Canada

(2009) Matthew T. Hurtgen et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Large perturbations of the carbon and sulfur cycle associated with the Late Ordovician mass extinction in South China

(2009) Tonggang Zhang et al.   GEOLOGY

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

(2009) Seth A. Young et al.   GEOLOGY

Oceanic Euxinia in Earth History: Causes and Consequences

(2008) Katja M. Meyer et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

The Ordovician Biodiversification: revolution in the oceanic trophic chain

(2008) THOMAS SERVAIS et al.   LETHAIA

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