The
Caradocian (Ordovician)-Wenlock (Silurian) Takche Formation of the Spiti region, northwestern Himalaya, is a highly fossiliferous litho-unit which has yielded bryozoans, coral reefs, conodonts, algae, ostracods and trilobites (Hayden 1904; Reed 1912; Bhargava & Bassi 1986, 1998; Suttner 2003, 2007).
174), that "Two spectacular bursts in diversity took place [in the broad Ordovician context], one in the late Arenig and the other in the late Llanvirnian to early
Caradocian...." One gets the impression of conflict within the Ordovician establishment.
Conodont and graptolite biostratigraphy and the Ordovician (Early Chatfieldian, Middle
Caradocian) [[delta].sup.13] excursion in North America and Baltoscandia: implications for the interpretation of the relations between the Millbrig and Kinnekulle K-bentonites.
The corresponding event is known as the Middle
Caradocian Facies and Faunal Turnover (Ainsaar et al.
The oldest rocks in the area are middle to late Ordovician are-related mafic volcanic rocks and
Caradocian slates and cherts of the Balmoral Group (Fig.
In its small size the new species is similar to Diorthelasma in the
Caradocian (Sandbian to Katian) of North America (Cooper 1956) but differs from the latter in more circular outline and a short hinge line, and in a narrow anteriorly elongate notothyrial platform.
As interpreted from rubble, the one metre of tuff is faulted on the southeast against
Caradocian dark grey slate-chert and is underlain by nearly 2 metres of weakly cleaved, massive and weakly laminated slate, light green-grey to light grey, to the end of the trench in till.
Caradocian and Ashgillian Chitinozoa from the subsurface of Gotland.
New data on the mineralogy of some Estonian Lower
Caradocian metabentonites.
Limestone associated with quartzose sandstone in the lower part of the Goss Point Formation contains a conodont assemblage dated as Late Ordovician (late
Caradocian to Ashgillian) (Nowlan et al.
Conodonts from the limestone and brachiopods from associated calcareous siltstone, together with U-Pb dating of the crystal tuff, indicate that the Nepisiguit Falls Formation is late Arenigian in age; graptolites from black shale of the Little River Formation are late
Caradocian in age.
A new deep-water Upper Ordovician (
Caradocian) trilobite fauna from South-West Wales.