Late Ordovician orthide and billingsellide brachiopods from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada : diversity change through a mass extinction / by Jisuo Jin and Renbin Zhan.

9780660198163 (ebook) :

Ottawa, Ontario : NRC Research Press, 2008.

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This monographic study deals with a major marine faunal turnover during the Late Ordovician global greenhouse/icehouse episodes. During the latest Ordovician global mass extinction event, the marine shelly benthos (bottom) of the Anticosti basin experienced a significant local radiation. This provides a great opportunity for us to investigate the response of marine life to a major environmental crisis. This monographic study aims to document the diversity change of brachiopods (one of the major groups of marine life during the Ordovician Period) from pre-extinction to extinction times.

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