Ordovician

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Silurian】Halysites – Found During a Student’s Thesis Fieldwork, the First Evidence of Japan’s Silurian

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【Life of the Ordovician】Starfish – The Animal That Lost Its Trunk and Crawls the Seafloor as a Head

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【Life of the Ordovician】Graptolites – The “Writing on the Rocks” Is Still Alive on the Seafloor

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【Life of the Ordovician】Lingula – Only the Shell Shape Stayed the Same for 500 Million Years

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【Life of the Ordovician】Sacabambaspis – The “Terrible Reconstruction” Was Faithful to the Fossil

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【Life of the Ordovician】Cameroceras – The 9-Meter Giant Was a Rumor About a Different Genus

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【Life of the Ordovician】Horseshoe Crab – A 445-Million-Year-Old Fossil That Already Looked Like Today’s

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【Life of the Ordovician】Orthoceras – The Cephalopod Whose Name Traveled Farther Than It Did

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【Life of the Ordovician】Nautilus – A New Ancient Creature Driven into the Deep

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【Life of the Ordovician】Crinoids – The “Sea Lilies” That Were Never Supposed to Move Can Crawl Away

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【Life of the Ordovician】Isotelus – At 72 cm, the Largest Trilobite Lived in Tropical Shallows

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【Prehistoric Life】Index – Life Through 4.6 Billion Years, in Order

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【Life of the Ordovician】Arandaspis – A Fish Known Only From Casts in Sandstone, With Not One Piece of Bone Left

Earth Timeline

【Earth Timeline 05】The Ordovician Period – Reef-Filled Seas and an Ending Locked in Ice