We study trilobites from four periods of the Palaeozoic: the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian. Our research covers trilobite taxonomy, phylogeny, functional morphology, biogeography, and ...
However, in the Ordovician, the creatures were invertebrates, or organisms lacking a backbone, such as brachiopods, trilobites, and corals. These organisms were perfectly suited to survive in the warm ...
Back when the Earth was crawling with trilobites and other strange shelled ... This era of intense bombardment, known as the Ordovician impact spike, may have resulted from meteorites falling ...
Beecher’s Trilobite Bed is located just outside Rome ... Megacheirans lived during the Cambrian Period and into the beginning ...
Abrupt climate change at the end of the Ordovician Period (~450-440 million years ago) caused the second largest mass extinction in Earth history, including the demise of the trilobite ...
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 ...
Research interests Ichnotaxonomy and behavioural studies of dinosaur tracks from the Middle Jurassic of the Cleveland Basin, northern England Study of invertebrate trace fossils Biogeography and ...