Some of our area's unique geological features and the processes that occurred to form them are: The fossil content of local limestone shows the diversity of life in the late Ordovician period.

Brachiopoda ("lamp shells") - Brachiopoda (or "lamp-shells ... Cincinnatian Series - The layer of exposed bedrock in southwestern Ohio composed of rock from the Upper Ordovician period. Clastic ...

Learn more about the time period that took place 488 to 443 million years ago. 3 min read During the Ordovician period, part of the Paleozoic era, a rich variety of marine life flourished in the ...

Brachiopod hard parts have excellent preservation potential. As a result, the Museum’s Brachiopod collection has more than 300,000 specimens, including 10,000 type and figured specimens. Uniquely, the ...

The Ordovician world was a watery one in which ... But in the Cabrières Biota, you’ll find brachiopods, trilobites, bivalved arthropods, worms, cnidarians, and mollusks. The fossilized loot ...

But first there was a period of biological regrouping following the disastrous climax to the Ordovician. The recovery soon got under way in the oceans as climbing temperatures and rising sea ...

The Bony Eyelid of Euoplocephalus (Reptilia, Ornithischia) (pp. 637-650) Walter P. Coombs, Jr. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1303019 A New Paleocene Phymosomatoid ...

Brachiopods past and present ... The Natural History Museum, MUIR LA, Botting JP, LONG SL, FORTEY RA (2004) Sponging off the poriferans: complex Ordovician ecosystems reliant on spicule-rich sediments ...

A. Apatite (calcium triphosphate): This mineral makes up the bones and teeth of vertebrates and the shells of inarticulate brachiopods. Calcium phosphate looks chalky when new, but can darken to black ...