Ordovician ironstone of the Iberian margin: Coastal upwelling, ocean anoxia and Palaeozoic biodiversity by Peir K. Pufahl, Alexandra D. Squires, J. Brendan Murphy, Cecilio Quesada, Stephen W. Lokier, J. Javier Álvaro, Jason Hatch

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A comparison of Cambro-Ordovician and modern sedimentary prisms in the New England area. by Recks, Elizabeth Helen

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

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

Digestive structures in Ordovician trilobites Colpocoryphe and Flexicalymene from the Barrandian area of Czech Republic by Oldřich Fatka, Petr Budil, Martin David

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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

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Evolution and Hydrocarbon Accumulation of the Cambrian-Ordovician Paleo-uplifts in the Southwest Tarim Depression, China by Lei Tian, Jun Liu, Qingzhou Yao

“…There is a close relationship between the evolution of the Cambrian–Ordovician paleo-uplifts and their hydrocarbon accumulation in the Southwest Tarim Depression. …”
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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). …”
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Middle Ordovician astrochronology decouples asteroid breakup from glacially-induced biotic radiations by Jan Audun Rasmussen, Nicolas Thibault, Christian Mac Ørum Rasmussen

“…The Middle Ordovician icehouse has been suggested to be sparked by extra-terrestrial dust associated with an asteroid break-up. …”
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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. …”
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Marine ostracod provinciality in the Late Ordovician of palaeocontinental Laurentia and its environmental and geographical expression. by Mohibullah Mohibullah, Mark Williams, Thijs R A Vandenbroucke, Koen Sabbe, Jan A Zalasiewicz

“…BACKGROUND: We examine the environmental, climatic and geographical controls on tropical ostracod distribution in the marine Ordovician of North America. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Analysis of the inter-regional distribution patterns of Ordovician Laurentian ostracods, focussing particularly on the diverse Late Ordovician Sandbian (ca 461 to 456 Ma) faunas, demonstrates strong endemicity at the species-level. …”
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Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) graptolites from the northern margin of the Qaidam Basin (Qinghai, China) by Liting Deng, Ming Li, Mo Huang

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<i>Platystrophia</i> (Orthida) and new related Ordovician and Early Silurian brachiopod genera by Harper, David A. T., Zuykov, Michael A.

“…More than 150 Ordovician and Early Silurian brachiopod species have been assigned to the genus Platystrophia King, 1850 mainly on the basis of their Spirifer-like shell exteriors. …”
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Lower–Middle Ordovician brachiopods from the Eastern Cordillera of Peru: biostratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical significance by Jorge Colmenar, Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Marco, César Augusto Chacaltana

“…LowerâMiddle Ordovician brachiopods are well known from the Central Andean Basin of Argentina and Bolivia, but relatively little data comes from its northern prolongation in the Altiplano and the Eastern Cordillera of Peru. …”
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Cornulitid epibionts on brachiopod shells from the Late Ordovician (middle Ashgill) of East China by Zhan, Renbin, Vinn, Olev

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Upper Cambrian-Ordovician reservoir characteristics in Well Gucheng-4 area, Tarim Basin by Chang-jian ZHU, Zhong-yao XIAO, Bao-min ZHANG, Ying-ai JIN, Hong SANG, Yong-fu LIU, Qing-ning DANG

“…Collapsed breccias are deposited in platform margins of the Upper Cambrian; Ordovician Penglaiba, Yingshan, and Yijianfang Formations sediments are controlled by eophyton, and lime mud mound facies of shallow glacis of platform frontal margin; Strumae limestone is deposited in the Ordovician Tumuxiuke Formation; and slope continental shelf abyssal basin facies controll the sediments in the Ordovician Queerqueke Formation. …”
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Enodicalix (Diploporita, Aristocystitidae): A new echinoderm genus from the Middle Ordovician of Spain by C.R.C. Paul, J.C. Gutiérrez-Marco

“…Restudy of an Ordovician diploporite specimen from the Middle Ordovician of central Spain reveals that the species ‘Calix’ inornatus MELÉNDEZ has four ambulacra, each with two equal facets, an oval hydropore and a smooth thecal surface. …”
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Geochemistry and mineralogy of the Upper Ordovician Wufeng formation, Southwestern China: Implications for Paleoclimate construction by Caiyuan Dong, Dejiang Li, Ye Zhang, Dahua Li, Mancang Liu, Zhongxi Han

“…In this study, mineralogical and geochemical data of the shales from the Upper Ordovician Wufeng Formation in southwestern China has been used to interpret the provenance and conditions of weathering and paleoclimate. …”
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Ordovician conodonts from the Mithaka Formation (Georgina Basin, Australia). Regional and paleobiogeographical implications by T. KUHN, C. Barnes

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Ordovician–Silurian true polar wander as a mechanism for severe glaciation and mass extinction by Xianqing Jing, Zhenyu Yang, Ross N. Mitchell, Yabo Tong, Min Zhu, Bo Wan

“…Sweeping Gondwana across the South Pole, this TPW event induced the Ordovician glaciation and mass extinction.…”
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