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    The Ordovician (/ɔːrdəˈvɪʃi.ən, -doʊ-, -ˈvɪʃən/ or-də-VISH-ee-ən, -⁠doh-, -⁠VISH-ən) is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the...
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  • The Late Ordovician, also called the Upper Ordovician by geologists, is the third epoch of the Ordovician period. At this time Western and Central Europe...
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    Cap Late D O–S The Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME), sometimes known as the end-Ordovician mass extinction or the Ordovician-Silurian extinction, is...
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  • The Early Ordovician is the first epoch of the Ordovician period, corresponding to the Lower Ordovician series of the Ordovician system. It began after...
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    geologic period and system spanning 24.6 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at 443.8 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian...
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  • The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE), was an evolutionary radiation of animal life throughout the Ordovician period, 40 million years after...
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    appearing in the Ordovician include: Cyclopyge (Early to Late Ordovician) Selenopeltis (Early to Late Ordovician) Parabolina (Early Ordovician) Cheirurus (Middle...
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  • subdivided into six geologic periods (from oldest to youngest): Cambrian Ordovician Silurian Devonian Carboniferous Permian Some geological timescales divide...
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    The Ordovician meteor event was a dramatic increase in the rate at which L chondrite meteorites fell to Earth during the Middle Ordovician period, about...
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    K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Cambrian–Ordovician extinction event, also known as the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary event, was an extinction event that...
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