The Ordovician Radiation: A Follow-up to the Cambrian Explosion?

• Published in: Integrative and comparative biology Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 178 - 184
• Main Authors: Droser, Mary L., Finnegan, Seth
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 01.02.2003; Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Cambrian explosion; Early Ordovician epoch; Echinoderms; Fauna; Geology; Marine ecology; Middle Ordovician epoch; Paleobiology; Paleoecology; The Cambrian Explosion: Putting the Pieces Together

There was a major diversification known as the Ordovician Radiation, in the period immediately following the Cambrian. This event is unique in taxonomic, ecologic and biogeographic aspects. While all of the phyla but one were established during the Cambrian explosion, taxonomic increases during the...