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... assembled an extensive body of data concerning environmental and faunal changes in the Ordovician-Silurian boundary interval. Those summaries, arranged by region and faunal group, provide precise information on environmental changes, near extinctions, and radiations of organisms in the postglacial interval.
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  • boundary interval
  • late ordovician
  • mass mortality
  • hirnantian stage
  • environmental changes

  • ice sheets


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