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Ordovician

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 Paleozoic Era, and the second of twelve periods of the Phanerozoic Eon. The Ordovician spans 43.75 million years from the end of the Cambrian Period 486.85 Ma (million years ago) to the start of the…

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Celestial body
Earth
Chronological unit
Period
First proposed by
Charles Lapworth, 1879
Lower boundary definition
FAD of the Conodont Iapetognathus fluctivagus
Lower GSSP ratified
January 2000: 19
Name formality
Formal

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  • ICS International Classification for Standards
  • Gondwanan Gondwana

Paleogeography and tectonics

Geochemistry

Climate and sea level

Life

End of the period

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Ordovician

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Ordovician

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related to Climate and sea level · 33
Ordovician → Africa, Baltoscandia, Boda Event, By, Carbon, Darriwilian, Despite, During, Early Eocene Climatic Optimum, Early Ordovician, Early Palaeozoic Ice Age, Earth, Europe, Evidence, Floian, Further, Hibernian, Hirnantian, In, Katian
related to Fauna · 30
Ordovician → Alborz, Another, Argentinian, Articulate, Baltica, Baltican, Cambrian, Celtic, During, Faunas, Gondwana, Gondwana's, Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, However, Iapetus Ocean, Laurentia, Laurentian, Middle Ordovician, North China, On
related to External links · 23
Ordovician → An Ordovician, April, Archived, Charlotte, Chazy Reef, Cincinnatian Group Archived, December, Global Boundary Stratotype Sections, GSSP's, Isle La Motte, January, Jim, June, March, Mehrtens, October, Ogg, Overview, Points, Retrieved
related to Paleogeography and tectonics · 23
Ordovician → Aegir Ocean, Asia, At, Avalonia, Baltica, Carboniferous, Central Mongolian, During, Europe, Gondwana, Laurentia, Most, North America, Other, Paleoasian Ocean, Rheic Ocean, Siberia, South Pole, The, The Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean
related to Subdivisions · 12
Ordovician → Australian, British, Chinese, ICS, In, Mediterranean, North American, North-Gondwanan, Ordovician Period, Pre-existing Baltoscandic, Siberian, System
related to Life · 11
Ordovician → Agnostida, Asaphida, Brachiopods, Earth's, For, Late Ordovician, Ordovician Period, Ptychopariida, Silurian, The, The Ordovician
related to End of the period · 7
Ordovician → At, Earth's, Permian, Silurian Period, The, The Ordovician, Triassic
related to Flora · 7
Ordovician → Among, Fossil, Glomerales, Green, Late Cambrian, Terrestrial, Wisconsin
related to Geochemistry · 4
Ordovician → Biogenic, Carbonate, The Ordovician, Unlike Cambrian
related to Ordovician meteor event · 4
Ordovician → Earth, It, Middle Ordovician Epoch, The Ordovician

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cambrian period late sea gondwana silurian years event first fauna brachiopods end middle time appeared land early trilobites million organisms

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OrdovicianCelestial bodyEarth1.00infobox
OrdovicianChronological unitPeriod1.00infobox
OrdovicianFirst proposed byCharles Lapworth, 18791.00infobox
OrdovicianLower boundary definitionFAD of the Conodont Iapetognathus fluctivagus1.00infobox
OrdovicianLower boundary GSSPGreenpoint section, Green Point, Newfoundland, Canada .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-…1.00infobox
OrdovicianLower GSSP ratifiedJanuary 2000: 191.00infobox
OrdovicianName formalityFormal1.00infobox
OrdovicianName ratified19601.00infobox
OrdovicianRegional usageGlobal (ICS)1.00infobox
OrdovicianSea level above present day180 m; rising to 220 m in Caradoc and falling sharply to 141 m in end-Ordovician glaciations1.00infobox
OrdovicianStratigraphic unitSystem1.00infobox
OrdovicianTime scale(s) usedICS Time Scale1.00infobox
OrdovicianTime span formalityFormal1.00infobox
OrdovicianUpper boundary definitionFAD of the Graptolite Akidograptus ascensus1.00infobox
OrdovicianUpper boundary GSSPDob's Linn, Moffat, U.K. 55°26′24″N 3°16′12″W / 55.4400°N 3.2700°W / 55.4400; -3.27001.00infobox
OrdovicianUpper GSSP ratified19841.00infobox

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