New isotopic data solving an old biostratigraphic problem: The age of the upper Ordovician brachiopod Holorhynchus giganteus

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 335-342

  Brenchley, P J ^a   Marshall, J D ^a   Hints, L ^b   Nolvak J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Brachiopods; Chemostratigraphy; Isotopes; Ordovician

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BRACHIOPOD; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; HOLORHYNCHUS GIGANTEUS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ORDOVICIAN;

NORWAY, ASKER;

EID: 0030808124     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.154.2.0335     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. BANCROFT, B.B. 1933. Correlation tables of the Stages Costonian-Onnian in England and Wales. Privately Printed at Nibley House, Blakeney, Gloucestershire.
2. BERNER, R.A. 1990. Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels over Phanerozoic time. Science, 249, 1382-1386.
3. BERGER, W.H. & VINCENT, E. 1986. Deep-sea carbonates: Reading the carbon-isotope signal. Geologische Rundschau, 75, 249-269.
4. BRENCHLEY, P.J. 1989. The late Ordovician extinction. In: DONOVAN, S.K. (ed.) Mass Extinctions: Processes and Evidence. Columbia University Press, New York, 104-132.
5. _ & COCKS, L.R.M. 1982. Ecological associations in a regressive sequence: the latest Ordovician of the Oslo-Asker district, Norway. Palaeontology, 25, 783-815.
6. _ & NEWALL, G. 1975. The stratigraphy of the upper Ordovician Stage 5 in the Oslo-Asker district, Norway. Norsk Geologiske Tiddskrift, 55, 243-275.
7. _ & _ 1980. A facies analysis of upper Ordovician regressive sequences in the Oslo region, Norway - a record of glacio-eustatic changes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 31, 1-38.
8. _, MARSHALL, J.D., CARDEN, G.A.F., ROBERTSON, D.B.R., LONG, D.G.F., MEIDLA, T., HINTS, L. & ANDERSON, T. 1994. Bathymetric and isotopic evidence for a short-lived Late Ordovician glaciation in a greenhouse period. Geology, 22, 295-298.
9. _, CARDEN, G.A.F. & MARSHALL, J.D. 1995. Environmental changes associated with the "first strike" of the late Ordovician mass extinction. Modern Geology, 20, 69-82.
10. COCKS, L.R.M. 1985. The Ordovician-Silurian boundary. Episodes, 8, 98-100.
11. DITCHFIELD, P. & MARSHALL, J.D. 1989. Isotopic variations in rhythmically bedded chalks: palaeotemperature variation in the Upper Cretaceous. Geology, 17, 842-845.
12. FISCHER, A.G. 1981. Climatic oscillations in the biosphere. In: NITECKI, M. (ed.) Biotic Crises in Ecological and Evolutionary Time. Academic Press, New York, 103-131.
13. _ 1982. Long term climatic oscillations recorded in stratigraphy. In: BERGER, W.H. & CROWELL, J.C. (eds) Climate in Earth History. National Academic Press, Washington, 97-104.
14. GALE, A.S., JENKYNS, H.C., KENNEDY, W.J. & CORFIELD, R. 1993. Chemostratigraphy versus biostratigraphy: data from around the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary. The Journal of the Geological Society, London, 150, 29-32.
15. HARPER, D.A.T. & RONG JIA-YU 1995. Patterns of change in the brachiopod faunas through the Ordovician-Silurian interface. Modern Geology, 20, 83-100.
16. HAYS, J.D., IMBRIE, J. & SHACKLETON, N.J. 1976. Variations in the Earth's orbit: Pacemaker of the ice ages. Science, 194, 1121-1132.
17. HINTS, L. 1993. Holorhynchus (Pentamerida, Brachiopoda) in the upper Ordovician of Estonia. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Science, Geology, 42, 118-123.
18. HOLSER, W.T., MARGARITZ, M. & CLARK, D.L. 1986. Carbon-isotopic stratigraphic correlations in the Late Permian. American Journal of Science, 286, 390-402.
19. INGHAM, J.K. & WRIGHT, A.D. 1970. A revised classification of the Ashgill Series. Lethaia, 3, 233-242.
20. JAANUSSON, V. 1979. Ordovician. In: MOORE, R.C., ROBISON, R.A. & TEICHERT, C. (eds) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part A. Introduction: Fossilisation (Taphonomy), Biogeography and Biostratigraphy. Geological Society of America and The Kansas University Press, 136-166.
21. JAANUSSON, V. 1982. Introduction to the Ordovician of Sweden. In: BRUTON, D.L. & WILLIAMS, S.H. (eds) Field Excursion Guide IV International symposium on the Ordovician System. Palaeontological contributions from the University of Oslo, 279, 1-9.
22. JOACHIMSKI, M.M. & BUGGISCH, W. 1993. Anoxic events in the late Frasnian - Causes of the Frasnian-Fammenian faunal crisis. Geology, 21, 675-678.
23. KENNETT, J.P & STOTT, L.D. 1995. Terminal Palaeocene mass-extinction in the deep sea: association with global warming. In: STANLEY, S.M., KENNETT, J.P. & KNOLL, A.H. (eds) Effects of Past Global Change on Life. National Academy Press, Washington DC, 94-107.
24. KIAER, J. 1902. Etage 5 i Asker ved Kristiania. Norsk Geologiske Undersøkelse Skrifte, 34, 1-112.
25. MARSHALL, J.D. 1992. Climatic and oceanographic isotopic signals from the carbonate rock record and their preservation. Geological Magazine, 129, 143-160.
26. _ & MIDDLETON, P.D. 1990. Changes in marine isotopic composition and the late Ordovician glaciation. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 147, 1-4.
27. _, BRENCHLEY, P.J., MASON, P., WOLFF, G.A., ASTINI, R.A., HINTS, L. & MEIDLA, T. in press. Global carbon isotopic events associated with mass extinction and glaciation in the Late Ordovician. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
28. MARTINSON, D.G., PISIAS, N.G., HAYS, J.D., IMBRIE, J., MOORE, T.C.J. & SHACKLETON, N.S. 1987. Age dating and the orbital theory of the ice ages; Development of a high-resolution 0 to 300,000-year chronostratigraphy. Quaternary Research, 27, 1-29.
29. MIDDLETON, P.D., MARSHALL, J.D. & BRENCHLEY, P.J. 1991. Evidence for isotopic changes associated with Late Ordovician glaciation, from brachiopods and marine cements of central Sweden. In: BARNES, C.R. & WILLIAMS, S.H. (eds) Advances in Ordovician Geology. Geological Survey of Canada Papers, 90-9, 313-323.
30. NÕLVAK, J. & GRAHN, Y. 1993. Ordovician chitinozoan zones from Baltoscandia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 79, 245-269.
31. NÕLVAK, J., MEIDLA, T. & HINTS, L. 1989. The Taučionys Formation (Holorhynchus beds) in the Iljinskoje boring (Pskov district). Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Geology, 38, 88-93.
32. PERCH-NIELSEN, K., MCKENZIE, J. & HE, Q. 1982. Biostratigraphy and isotope stratigraphy and the 'catastrophic' extinction of calcareous nannoplankton at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary. In: SILVER, L.T., SCHULTZ, P.H. & BURKE, K. (eds) Geological implications of impacts of large asteroids and comets on the Earth. Geological Society of America, Special Papers, 190, 353-371.
33. PISIAS, N.G., MARTINSON, D.G., MOORE, T.C., SHACKLETON, N.J., PRELL, W., HAYS, J. & BODEN, G. 1984. High resolution stratigraphic correlation of benthic isotopic records spanning the last 300,000 years. Marine Geology, 56, 119-136.
34. ROBERTSON, D.B.R. 1992. Environmental and biotic changes associated with the end-Ordovician extinction. PhD thesis, University of Liverpool.
35. RONG JIA-YU & HARPER, D.A.T. 1988. A global synthesis of the latest Ordovician Hirnantian brachiopod faunas. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Geology, 79, 383-402.
36. STANISTREET, I.G. 1983. Contemporaneous faulting in the upper Ordovician of the Oslo-Asker district, Norway, and its significance in the development of the Oslo Basin. Sedimentary Geology, 37, 133-150.
37. TEMPLE, J.T. 1965. Upper Ordovician brachiopods from Poland and Britain. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 10, 379-450.
38. WANG, K., ORTH, C.J., ATREP, M.J., CHATTERTON, B.D.E., WANG, X. & LI, J. 1993. The great latest Ordovician extinction on the south China plate: chemostratigraphic studies of the Ordovician-Silurian boundary interval on the Yangtze platform. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 104, 61-79.
39. WRIGHT, A.D. 1968. A westward extension of the upper Ashgillian Hirnantia fauna. Lethaia, 1, 352-367.