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Brachiopod Faunal Replacement Across the Ordovician-Silurian Extinction Event in Missouri

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2017

L. J. Stanton
Affiliation:
Geoscience Department University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI
P. M. Sheehan
Affiliation:
Geology Section Milwaukee Public Museum Milwaukee, WI 53233
P. J. Lespérance
Affiliation:
Départment de Géologie Université de Montréal CP 6128, Montreal, Québec
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At the end of the Ordovician many marine benthonic and planktonic faunas underwent a global extinction that has been attributed to climatic changes and glacio-eustatic fluctuations in sea-level (Berry and Boucot, 1973; Sheehan, 1973, 1975; Brenchley, 1984). Raup and Sepkoski (1982) found that the Late Ordovician-Early Silurian extinction event was one of the five major Phanerozoic mass extinctions.

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