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 ...

Morphologic changes, most particularly in the size, shape, and arrangement of the cystiphragms, in four species of the ectoproct genus Prasopora Nicholson & Etheridge indicate an evolution of the ...

Actinocerid nautiloids from the Lhasai Formation in the Xainza region are studied systematically for the first time. The nautiloids are identified as Middle Ordovician in age based on stratigraphic ...

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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 ...

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Rare Middle Ordovician specimens rank among the oldest worldwide, study finds Dubai: The Royal Commission for AlUla has announced the documentation and publication of a rare fossil discovery of ...

When Earth's species were rapidly diversifying nearly 500 million years ago, that evolution was driven by complex factors including global cooling, more oxygen in the atmosphere, and more nutrients in ...

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 ...