Two-Meter-Long Fossil of Lobster-Like Animal That Swam the Seas 480 Million Years Ago Discovered, Used Its Head to Catch Prey ...

3 min read During the Ordovician period, part of the Paleozoic era ... known mainly from the tiny fossil teeth they left behind. The few complete fossils that have been found suggest they were ...

Eric Monceret and Sylvie Monceret-Goujon found one of the world’s richest and most biodiverse fossil sites from the Lower Ordovician period (488-444 million years ago) in southern France.

Amateurs, too, can look at local rocks to learn about what life was like in the Ordovician Period, 505 to 438 million years ago. Some of our area's unique geological features and the processes that ...

The fossils that these layers contain are world-famous for the details that they record about life on Earth during the Late Ordovician Period. Besides preserving pieces of Earth's history, limestone ...

the microfossils dating to the Lower Ordovician Period, approximately 480 million years ago, fill an approximately 25-million-year gap in knowledge by reconciling the molecular clock—or pace of ...

The earliest fossil evidence for sharks or their ancestors are a few scales dating to 450 million years ago, during the Late Ordovician Period. Emma Bernard, a curator of fossil fish at the Museum, ...

An international research team has made a notable discovery of fossil embryos belonging to ... reported from the early Cambrian to the Early Ordovician periods, most examples are limited to ...

The oldest echinoids come from the Late Ordovician Period and are approximately 450 million years ... element of the benthos throughout the Palaeozoic and are never common as fossils. Although all had ...

One of the world's most important fossil deposits has been ... previous examples are from the Cambrian period, but Castle Bank dates from the middle Ordovician, some 50 million years later.