The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE): The palaeoecological dimension
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...events (taking place at different times on different continents within different phyla) that covered the entire Ordovician and were part of a wider Cambrian–Ordovician radiation (Servais et al., 2010)....
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...Environmental conditions on the planet were quite unique during the Ordovician, very different from those today (e.g., Jaanusson, 1984; Servais et al., 2010)....
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...In the mobile-epifaunal-detritivore megaguild (Table 5) the benthic trilobites, ostracods and gastropods were dominant in the Late Ordovician (Servais et al., 2010)whereas in the LateDevonian the jawlessfishes were the dominant vagrant detritivores (McGhee, 1996)....
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...Detritivorous jawless fishes are present in the Late Ordovician (Pteraspidomorphi: Astraspida, Arandaspida, and Heterostraci; Benton, 2005) but apparently they were rare and not ecologically prominent (Servais et al., 2010)....
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...…pelagic-carnivore megaguild (Table 5) the nautiloid orthocerid, lithulitid, and tarphyncerid cephalopods were dominant carnivores in the Late Ordovician (Servais et al., 2010), whereas in the Late Devonian the ammonoid cephalopods and placoderm fishes were the dominant carnivores (McGhee, 1996)....
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