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.

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, ...

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 ...

is one of the world’s richest and most diverse fossil sites from the Lower Ordovician period. The amateurs who came across these fossils were over the moon when they realised the importance of ...

These changes, and their resulting geographic features and fossils, are interesting to scientists and non-scientists alike. Scientists use the evidence recorded within rocks throughout geologic time ...

The oldest echinoids come from the Late Ordovician Period and are approximately 450 million years old ... Echinoids remained only a very minor element of the benthos throughout the Palaeozoic and are ...

The fossil was found in May ... biology and agribusiness at Mayville State University. It comes from the Ordovician Period of the Paleozoic Era, about 485 to 444 million years ago.

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.