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Brachiopod Faunal Replacement Across the Ordovician-Silurian Extinction Event in Missouri

L. J. Stanton, Peter M. F. Sheehan, Pierre J. Lespérance

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At the end of the Ordovician many marine benthonic and planktonic faunas underwent a global extinction that has been attributed to climatic changes and glacio-eustatic fluctuations in sea-level (Berry and Boucot, 1973; Sheehan, 1973, 1975; Brenchley, 1984). Raup and Sepkoski (1982) found that the Late Ordovician-Early Silurian extinction event was one of the five major Phanerozoic mass extinctions.

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At the end of the Ordovician many marine benthonic and planktonic faunas underwent a global extinction that has been attributed to climatic changes and glacio-eustatic fluctuations in sea-level (Berry and Boucot, 1973; Sheehan, 1973, 1975; Brenchley, 1984). Raup and Sepkoski (1982) found that the Late Ordovician-Early Silurian extinction event was one of the five major Phanerozoic mass extinctions.

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At the end of the Ordovician many marine benthonic and planktonic faunas underwent a global extinction that has been attributed to climatic changes and glacio-eustatic fluctuations in sea-level (Berry and Boucot, 1973; Sheehan, 1973, 1975; Brenchley, 1984). Raup and Sepkoski (1982) found that the Late Ordovician-Early Silurian extinction event was one of the five major Phanerozoic mass extinctions.

Key concepts: Ordovician, Extinction event, Paleontology, Phanerozoic, Geology, Extinction (optical mineralogy), Fauna, Paleozoic

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