The earliest leperditicope arthropod: a new genus from the Ordovician of Spitsbergen by Williams, M, Siveter, D

“…It occurs at a stratigraphical level low in the Floian Stage of the Early Ordovician, and below rocks bearing graptolites of the Pendeograptus fructicosus Biozone. …”

Scottish Ordovician ostracodes: a review of their palaeoenvironmental, biostratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical significance by Williams, M, Floyd, J, Miller, C, Siveter, D

“…Ostracodes have a wide geographical distribution in the Ordovician of Scotland. They are known from the Southern Uplands, the Girvan district, the Highland Border region and the Inner Hebrides. …”

An ostracod-like arthropod with appendages preserved from the lower Ordovician of England by Siveter, D, Rushton, A, Siveter, D

Absolute age evidence of Early to Middle Ordovician volcanism in Peninsular Malaysia by Quek, Long Xiang, Ghani, Azman Abd, Lai, Yu Ming, Lee, Hao Yang, Saidin, Mokhtar, Roselee, Muhammad Hatta, Badruldin, Muhammad Hafifi, Hassan, Meor Hakif Amir, Abdul Aziz, Jasmi Hafiz, Ng, Tham Fatt, Ali, Muhammad Afiq Muhammad, Zulkifley, Mohamad Tarmizi Mohamad

“…Zircons from three Gerik-Dinding meta-volcanic rock samples yield Early to Middle Ordovician weighted mean 206Pb/238U ages between 480 and 460 Ma. …”

U-Pb zircon age of Ordovician magmatism in the Albera Massif (Eastern Pyrenees) by M. LIESA TORRE-MARÍN, J. CARRERAS, P. CASTIÑEIRAS GARCÍA, J.M. CASAS, M. NAVIDAD, M. VILÀ

Subjects: Get full text

Paleoenvironment of the Lower Ordovician Meitan Formation in the Sichuan Basin and Adjacent Areas, China by Meihua Yang, Yinhui Zuo, Xiaodong Fu, Lei Qiu, Wenzheng Li, Jianyong Zhang, Ziyun Zheng, Jiazhen Zhang

“…The paleoenvironment of the Lower Ordovician Meitan Formation of the Sichuan Basin and its adjacent areas is lacking, restricting the oil and gas exploration of the Ordovician in the Sichuan Basin and its adjacent areas. …”
Get full text

Novel marrellomorph moulting behaviour preserved in the Lower Ordovician Fezouata Shale, Morocco by Harriet B. Drage, David A. Legg, Allison C. Daley

“…We describe exuviae from a marrellid marrellomorph found abundantly in the Early Ordovician Fezouata Shale Lagerstätte of Morocco, which allow a novel reconstruction, the second ever, of marrellid moulting behaviours. …”
Get full text

ACRITARCHS AND CONODONTS FROM THE CAMBRO - ORDOVICIAN FURUHÄLL (KÖPINGSKLINT) SECTION (ÖLAND, SWEDEN) by GABRIELLA BAGNOLI, SVEND STOUGE, MARCO TONGIORGI

Subjects: “…Acritarchs; Conodonts; Biostratigraphy; Taxonomy; Cambrian; Lower Ordovician; Öland; Sweden.…”
Get full text

The Species-Area Relationship in the Late Ordovician: A Test Using Neutral Theory by Steven M. Holland, Judith A. Sclafani

“…Because θ can be calculated from preserved relative abundance distributions, this correlation can be tested in the fossil record for regions with known provinces. Late Ordovician (443–458 Ma) strata of Laurentia are divided into four geochemically and biologically distinct regions that reflect provinces in the epicontinental sea. …”
Get full text

Late Ordovician jawed polychaete fauna from the Spiti Valley, northern India by Petra Tonarová, Thomas J. Suttner, Michal Kubajko, Olle Hints

“…The final part of the Ordovician Period was characterised by major perturbations in climate, environments and ecosystems, as proved by numerous studies. …”
Get full text

Internal anatomy of a fossilized embryonic stage of the Cambrian-Ordovician scalidophoran Markuelia by Xi-ping Dong, Baichuan Duan, Jianbo Liu, Philip C. J. Donoghue

Get full text

LOWER TO MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN ACRITARCHS AND CHITINOZOANS FROM NORTHERN KARAKORUM MOUNTAINS, PAKISTAN by MARCO QUINTAVALLE, MARCO TONGIORGI, MAURIZIO GAETANI

“…The presence of Arbusculidium, Coryphidium, and Striatotheca in most samples confirms the paleogeographic attribution of the Northern Karakorum Terrane to the northern Gondwana margin (Lower to Middle Ordovician Mediterranean acritarch Palaeoprovince). …”
Get full text

On the Upper Ordovician unconformity in the Pyrenees: New evidence from the La Cerdanya area by J.M. Casas, Ó. Fernández

Subjects: “…Upper Ordovician…”
Get full text

Late Ordovician beachrock as a far-field indicator for glacial meltwater pulse by Qijian Li, Lin Na, Shenyang Yu, Oliver Lehnert, Axel Munneck, Li Yue

“…By combining the stratigraphic architecture with petrography of characteristic carbonate cements, we demonstrate the first known occurrence of Ordovician beachrock in the Tarim Block, northwestern China. …”
Get full text

Geochemistry And Petrography Characterization Of Ordovician Devonian Limestone Formation In Kinta District, Perak by Zahisham, Zahira Sofiya

Get full text

Biostratigraphic zoning and trilobites of the Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician of the North-Western Siberian platform/ by 450088 Rozova, A.V.

Controlling factors for effective reservoir development of Ordovician Kelimoli Formation in western Ordos Basin by Huimin LI, Zhenyu ZHAO, Wei SONG, Tao ZHANG, Dangni ZHAO, Tingting JIANG, Li ZHANG, Zhaobing CHEN

Subjects: Get full text

Ordovician gas exploration breakthrough in the Gucheng lower uplift of the Tarim Basin and its enlightenment by Wang Zhaoming, Yang Haijun, Qi Yingmin, Chen Yongquan, Xu Yanlong

“…A steady high yield natural gas flow was tapped in the Ordovician strata of Well Gucheng 6 drilled in the Gucheng lower uplift in the Tarim Basin in 2012, marking the discovery of another carbonate gas exploration field after the other two fields in the middle and northern Tarim Basin (the so called Tazhong and Tabei in the industry). …”
Get full text

Coupled exuviae of the Ordovician Ovalocephalus (Pliomeridae, Trilobita) in South China and its behavioral implications by Ruiwen Zong

“…Abundant exuviae of Ovalocephalus tetrasulcatus are preserved in the Ordovician strata in central Hubei, China, and some of them are arranged with two or three together end to end or superimposed. …”
Get full text

Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) graptolites from the northern margin of the Qaidam Basin (Qinghai, China) by Liting Deng, Ming Li, Mo Huang

Get full text