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The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE) was an evolutionary radiation of animal life throughout [1] the Ordovician period, 40 million years after the Cambrian explosion, [2] whereby the distinctive Cambrian fauna fizzled out to be replaced with a Paleozoic fauna rich in suspension feeder and pelagic animals.
The Ordovician–Silurian extinction events may have been caused by an ice age that occurred at the end of the Ordovician Period, due to the expansion of the first terrestrial plants, [54] as the end of the Late Ordovician was one of the coldest times in the last 600 million years of Earth's history.
The Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME), sometimes known as the end-Ordovician mass extinction or the Ordovician-Silurian extinction, is the first of the "big five" major mass extinction events in Earth's history, occurring roughly 445 million years ago (Ma). [1]
Animals of the Ordovician period Paleontology portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. Ordovician animals by continent ...
The complexity of slightly later Gondwana plants like Baragwanathia, which resembled a modern clubmoss, indicates a much longer history for vascular plants, extending into the early Silurian or even Ordovician. [citation needed] The first terrestrial animals also appear in the Wenlock, represented by air-breathing millipedes from Scotland. [24 ...
The discovery dates to the Ordovician Period, a 41.6-million-year era during which the oceans were dominated by the ancestors of today’s sea urchins and starfish, and a variety of species known ...
In all the extinction event of the Late Ordovician saw a loss of 85% of marine animal species and 26% of animal families. [69] The deglaciation at the end of the Homerian glacial interval was coeval with the first major radiation of trilete spore-producing plants, harbingering the dawn of the Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution.
Graptolite fossils were later referred to a variety of groups, including other branching colonial animals such as bryozoans ("moss animals") and hydrozoans. The term Graptolithina was established by Bronn in 1849, who considered them to represent orthoconic cephalopods.