Vol 72, Issue 1, 2023
Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on the Ordovician System. Guest Editors: Tõnu Meidla and Peep Männik
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Foreword; p. 5
Tõnu Meidla, David A. T. Harper 
, Thomas Servais
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Advances in the Lower Ordovician of the western Iberian Chain, NE Spain; pp. 6–9
J. Javier Álvaro, Blanca Martínez-Benítez
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Ordovician collections stored at the National Museum of Natural History of the NAS of Ukraine; pp. 10–13
Galyna Anfimova , Volodymyr Grytsenko
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Using 3-D mapping to understand an Upper Ordovician buildup and facies complex in the upper Lexington Limestone, central Kentucky, USA; pp. 14–17
Sean Davis, Frank R. Ettensohn , William M. Andrews , Gustavo Martins
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The Evae transgression: a major event?; pp. 18–21
Gisella M. Della Costa , Guillermo L. Albanesi
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Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) graptolites from the northern margin of the Qaidam Basin (Qinghai, China); pp. 22–25
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Solutan echinoderms from the Lower Ordovician of the Montagne Noire (France): new data and palaeobiogeographic implications; pp. 26–29
Christophe Dupichaud , Bertrand Lefebvre , Martina Nohejlová
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Tectonic, foreland-basin origins of Upper Ordovician black gas shales in the Appalachian Basin of eastern United States; pp. 30–33
Frank R. Ettensohn , Gustavo Martins
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Early diagenetic transformation stages revealed by micro-analytical studies of shelly phosphorites, Rakvere region; pp. 34–37
Sophie Graul , Toivo Kallaste , Marko Moilanen, Mawo Ndiaye, Rutt Hints
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The Irish Ordovician brachiopod fauna: A taxonomic renaissance; pp. 38–41
David A. T. Harper
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Latest Sandbian brachiopods and chitinozoan biostratigraphy in North Estonia; pp. 42–45
Linda Hints , Jaak Nõlvak
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A diverse Hirnantian scolecodont assemblage from northern Estonia and resilience of polychaetes to the end-Ordovician mass extinction; pp. 46–49
Olle Hints , Petra Tonarová
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A remarkable new halichondrid demosponge, Ptilospongia hemisphaeroidalis, from the latest Ordovician Beigong Biota, South China; pp. 50–53
Lixia Li, Joachim Reitner
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Tremadocian (Ordovician) reclined graptolites from Baishan, North China; pp. 54–57
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On future directions of Ordovician chitinozoan research; pp. 58–61
Yan Liang, Olle Hints , Jaak Nõlvak , Peng Tang
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New contributions to the Ordovician biostratigraphy of the Western Precordillera, Argentina; pp. 62–65
Fernando E. Lopez, Gladys Ortega, Guillermo L. Albanesi , Aldo L. Banchig
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Boundary between the Porkuni and Juuru regional stages in the Neitla section, Estonia; pp. 66–69
Peep Männik , Jaak Nõlvak
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Searching for the Ordovician–Silurian boundary in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; pp. 70–73
Tõnu Meidla, Olle Hints , Leho Ainsaar
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A new species of the problematic organism Webbyites from the Early Ordovician Fezouata Biota of Morocco; pp. 74–77
Lucy A. Muir , Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Marco
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Nitrogen and organic carbon isotope record in Tremadocian highly metalliferous black shales from Baltica; pp. 78–81
Mawo Ndiaye, Merlin Liiv, Toivo Kallaste , Sophie Graul , Rutt Hints
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Latest Ordovician age of the Spinachitina fragilis Chitinozoan Biozone in Baltoscandia; pp. 82–85
Jaak Nõlvak , Yan Liang, Olle Hints
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First report of the mitrate Mitrocystella (Echinodermata, Stylophora) in the Middle Ordovician of the Crozon Peninsula, Brittany (France); pp. 86–89
Maxime Renaud, Bertrand Lefebvre , Denis Bailliot, Marie-Noëlle Bailliot, Sophie Coat, Christian Gaudu†, Muriel Vidal
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Early Tremadocian graptolites from the Arivechi area, Sonora, northern Mexico; pp. 90–93
Dulce Raquel Reyes-Montoya , Francisco Javier Cuen-Romero , Pilar Navas-Parejo , Nohemí Gámez-Meza , Juan José Palafox-Reyes, Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Marco
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The breakup of the L-chondrite parent body 466 Ma and its terrestrial effects – a search for a mid-Ordovician biodiversity event; pp. 94–97
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Diversification and speciation among Laurentian brachiopods during the GOBE: insights from basinal and regional analyses; pp. 98–101
Alycia L. Stigall , Shaolin M. Censullo, Sarah A. Hennessey, Jennifer E. Bauer , Adriane R. Lam , David F. Wright
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An evo-devo perspective on no Ordovician land plants; pp. 102–105
Paul K. Strother
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Ichnogenus Trypanites in the Ordovician of Estonia (Baltica); pp. 106–109
Ursula Toom , Jukka Kuva , Dirk Knaust
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Parasite-induced shell damage in brachiopod Porambonites (Porambonites) laticaudata from the Late Ordovician (Sandbian) of Estonia; pp. 110–113
Olev Vinn , Kenneth De Baets , Mare Isakar, Ursula Toom
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Ordovician stratigraphy of the Junee–Narromine Volcanic Belt in central New South Wales, Australia: conodont studies and regional correlations; pp. 114–117
Yong Yi Zhen , Ian G. Percival
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Age of the Ordovician sedimentary succession in Lumparn Bay, Åland Islands, Finland; p. 118
Leho Ainsaar , Tõnu Meidla
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Three-dimensionally preserved siphuncle in an actinoceratid cephalopod from the late Katian of Bohemia; p. 119
Martina Aubrechtová , Vojtěch Turek
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Ordovician conulariid monospecific assemblages (Czech Republic, Morocco); p. 120
Jana Bruthansová , Petr Kraft
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Subway into the Ordovician (Prague Basin, Czech Republic); p. 121
Jana Bruthansová , Petr Kraft , Jiří Bruthans
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The ichnologic signature of deep-sea colonization during the Ordovician radiation; p. 122
Luis A. Buatois, M. Gabriela Mángano, Maximiliano Paz , Nicholas J. Minter , Kai Zhou
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Chitinozoan nomenclature and databases; p. 123
Sonia Camina , Olle Hints , Anthony Butcher
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Biogeographic dynamics of graptolite species during the end-Ordovician mass extinction in South China; p. 124
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Ordovician conodonts from the Ban Tha Kradan area, Western Thailand; p. 125
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Lower–Middle Ordovician brachiopods from the Eastern Cordillera of Peru: biostratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical significance; p. 126
Jorge Colmenar , Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Marco , César Augusto Chacaltana
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Ordovician Bryozoa of Estonia; p. 127
Andrej Ernst
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Upper Ordovician chronostratigraphic correlation between the Appalachian and Midcontinent basins; p. 128
Cristiana J. P. Esteves, Patrick I. McLaughlin, Alyssa M. Bancroft, Thomas W. Wong Hearing , Mark Williams, Jahandar Ramezani, Poul Emsbo , Thijs R. A. Vandenbroucke
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Late Ordovician gastropods from the Zhaolaoyu Formation in the southwestern margin of the North China Platform; p. 129
Rao Fu, Yue Liang, Lars E. Holmer , Yutong Lu, Yi Xiang, Yazhou Hu, Zhifei Zhang
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A methodological scheme to analyse the early Palaeozoic biodiversification with the example of echinoderms; p. 130
Pauline Guenser , Martina Nohejlová , Elise Nardin , Bertrand Lefebvre
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The Ordovician System: From overlapping unit stratotypes to Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points; p. 131
David A. T. Harper , Tõnu Meidla, Thomas Servais
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Siphonotretoid brachiopods – a thorny problem; p. 132
Lars E. Holmer , Leonid E. Popov , Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour , Yue Liang, Zhifei Zhang
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Distinguishing borings and burrows in intraclasts; p. 133
Yazhou Hu, Luke C. Strotz , Dirk Knaust , Jiayue Wang, Yue Liang, Zhifei Zhang
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Coupled extinction–regression episodes revisited in mid-oceanic settings for comparative extinction study during the Palaeozoic in view of non-bolide extraterrestrial causes; p. 134
Yukio Isozaki
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The earliest known stromatoporoid and its contribution to reef construction; p. 135
Juwan Jeon , Jeong-Hyun Lee, Stephen Kershaw , Zhong-Yang Chen, Jun-Ye Ma, Kun Liang, Yuan-Dong Zhang
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Preservation of fossils in the Šárka Formation (Darriwilian, Czech Republic); p. 136
Petr Kraft , Jana Bruthansová
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Diversity and spatial turnover of bryozoan assemblages in the reefs of the Vasalemma Formation (Late Ordovician), Estonia; p. 137
Björn Köger, Andrej Ernst , Amelia Penny , Hans Arne Nakrem , Ursula Toom
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Global palaeogeographical implication of acritarchs in the Upper Ordovician; p. 138
Yan Kui, Thomas Servais , Huang Bin, Li Jun, Shan Longlong
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Late Ordovician beachrock as a far-field indicator for glacial meltwater pulse; p. 139
Qijian Li, Lin Na, Shenyang Yu, Oliver Lehnert , Axel Munneck , Li Yue
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When lingulid brachiopods became infaunal(?) – perspectives from the morphological and anatomical information; p. 140
Yue Liang, Luke C. Strotz , Timothy P. Topper , Lars E. Holmer , Graham E. Budd , Yanlong Chen, Ruisen Fang, Yazhou Hu, Zhifei Zhang
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The morphological disparity, ecological evolution and palaeobiogeography of Palaeozoic hyoliths; p. 141
Fan Liu, Timothy P. Topper , Luke C. Strotz , Yue Liang, Christian B. Skovsted , Zhifei Zhang
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Impoverished fossil association in the lowermost Sandbian of the Prague Basin (Czech Republic); p. 142
Monika Luptáková, Petr Kraft
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Trilobite expansion into estuarine environments during the Ordovician radiation; p. 143
M. Gabriela Mángano, Luis A. Buatois, Beatriz G. Waisfeld , Diego F. Muñoz , N. Emilio Vaccari , Ricardo A. Astini
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Ordovician climate changes in the northern subtropics: The δ18O record from the Tunguska Basin, Siberia; p. 144
Peep Männik , Oliver Lehnert , Michael M. Joachimski
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Palaeozoic carbon isotope excursions and carbonate component analysis; p. 145
Imre Andreas Martin, Leho Ainsaar , Aivo Lepland
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Ordovician scientometrics; p. 146
Alysson Mazoni, Rodrigo Costas, Carolina Zabini
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An Ordovician ostracod palaeopsychrosphere?; p. 147
Anna McGairy , Christopher P. Stocker , Mark Williams, Phong Duc Nguyen, Thomas H. P. Harvey, Toshifumi Komatsu, Dayou Zhai
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The late Katian Elkhorn event: precursor to the Late Ordovician mass extinction; p. 148
Patrick I. McLaughlin, Thijs R. A. Vandenbroucke , Cristiana J. P. Esteves, Alyssa M. Bancroft, Timothy R. Paton, Mark Williams, Carlton E. Brett, Cole Farnam, Poul Emsbo
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Recent advances in the Ordovician stratigraphy of the Baltic Palaeobasin and Tornquist margin of Baltica; p. 149
Tõnu Meidla, Leho Ainsaar , Olle Hints , Sigitas Radzevičius
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Drivers of the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction: redox, volcanism, atmospheric oxygen/carbon dioxide and/or glaciation; p. 150
Audrey Morrison, Amy Lefebvre, Ariel Van Patter, Alyssa Davis, Matthew Oelschlagel, Nigel Blamey , Jisuo Jin, Sylvia Riechelmann , Uwe Brand
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Changes in shelf phosphorus burial during the Hirnantian glaciation and its implications; p. 151
Johann Müller , Michael M. Joachimski , Oliver Lehnert , Peep Männik , Yadong Sun
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Echinoderm Lagerstätten from high-latitude Gondwana – filling the gap in the Ordovician diversification of the phylum; p. 152
Martina Nohejlová , Christophe Dupichaud , Bertrand Lefebvre , Elise Nardin , Farid Saleh
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Towards a revised Sandbian conodont biozonation of Baltica; p. 153
Tõnn Paiste , Peep Männik , Svend Stouge , Tõnu Meidla
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The earliest Ordovician trace fossils Cruziana and Rusophycus from Baltica; p. 154
Helje Pärnaste , Ursula Toom , Leonid E. Popov
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Upper Ordovician hardgrounds – from localized surfaces to global biogeochemical events; p. 155
Timothy R. Paton, Patrick I. McLaughlin, Poul Emsbo , Thijs R. A. Vandenbroucke , Carlton E. Brett
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The Late Ordovician extinction conundrum; p. 156
Christian M. Ø. Rasmussen
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Where are all the Ordovician sea cucumbers (Echinodermata)?; p. 157
Mike Reich
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Middle–Late Ordovician organic- walled phytoplankton from Sweden: diversity and early radiation; p. 158
Claudia V. Rubinstein , Vivi Vajda
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The detailed Middle to early Late Ordovician faunal succession and δ13Ccarbon chemistry of the Kårehamn drill core, offshore eastern Öland, Sweden: implications for stratigraphy and correlation; p. 159
Svend Stouge , Gabriella Bagnoli, Garmen Bauert, Heikki Bauert, Christian M. Ø. Rasmussen
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Late Ordovician jawed polychaete fauna from the Spiti Valley, northern India; p. 160
Petra Tonarová , Thomas J. Suttner , Michal Kubajko , Olle Hints
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Phylogeny and evolutionary modularity of a trilobite family over the Ordovician Radiation; p. 161
Ernesto E. Vargas-Parra , Melanie J. Hopkins
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Developing a phylogenetic framework for tiny Ordovician brachiopods (Atrypida: Anazyginae and Catazyginae) from the eastern United States; p. 162
Mariana Vilela-Andrade, Alycia L. Stigall
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Distribution pattern of the Ordovician black shale constrained by graptolite zonation in the western margin of the Ordos Block, North-West China; p. 163
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Early land plant remains from the uppermost Ordovician–?lowermost Silurian Cedarberg Formation of South Africa; p. 164
Charles H. Wellman, Cameron R. Penn-Clarke , Claire Browning
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High-resolution carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Lower and Middle Ordovician succession of the Yangtze Platform, China; p. 165
Rongchang Wu, Fangyi Gong, Mikael Calner , Jianbo Liu, Oliver Lehnert , Xiaocong Luan, Guanzhou Yan, Lixia Li, Renbin Zhan
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Oxygen isotope compositions of conodonts – analytical challenges of in situ SIMS studies; p. 166
Alicja Wudarska , Michael Wiedenbeck, Olle Hints , Peep Männik , Aivo Lepland , Michael M. Joachimski , Frédéric Couffignal, Maria Rosa Scicchitano , Franziska D. H. Wilke
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A summary of the Brazilian Paraná Basin Ordovician; p. 167
Carolina Zabini , Lívia Rodrigues, Fernando Lavié , Ana Beatriz Furtado-Carvalho , Enrique Alberto Randolfe , Juan José Rustán , Francisco Arouca , Ana Laura Silva Gomes , Rodrigo Adôrno, Matheus Denezine , Dermeval A. do Carmo , Mário L. Assine
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Ordovician geology and stratigraphy of China: A synthesis; p. 168
Yuandong Zhang, Renbin Zhan , Yong Yi Zhen , Wenhui Wang, Yan Liang, Xiang Fang, Rongchang Wu, Kui Yan, Junpeng Zhang, Wenjie Li
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Reconstruction of the first consumer-driven marine ecosystem on Earth, perspectives from early Cambrian small skeletal fossils from China; p. 169
Zhifei Zhang, Yue Liang, Fan Liu, Yazhou Hu, Lars E. Holmer
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An integrative biostratigraphic, chemostratigraphic, and sequence stratigraphic perspective of the Ordovician–Silurian boundary on Anticosti Island (Canada); p. 170
Joshua B. Zimmt , Steven M. Holland , Mariko Cappello, David S. Jones, Jisuo Jin, Jon M. Husson , Blair Schoene , Charles Mitchell, Michael Melchin, Seth Finnegan , André Desrochers
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