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Molecular indicators of microbial community change linked to salinity variation and terrestrial inputs during the Ordovician-Silurian transition (East-Central USA)

Song, Y., Algeo, T. J., Brett, C. E., Liu, Z., & Xie, S. (2025) · Chemical Geology · doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2025.122724 · Cited by 6 · see citing works

Virgatasporites and Attritasporites: the oldest land plant derived spores, cryptospores or acritarchs?

Navidi-Izad, N., Benachour, H. B., Kroeck, D. M., Steemans, P., & Servais, T. (2022) · Botany Letters · doi:10.1080/23818107.2022.2113560 · Cited by 5 · see citing works

Evolution of water cycle in deep time: Current research status and key questions

Zhu, M., Guo, Z., & Wang, P. (2023) · Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version) · doi:10.1360/tb-2022-1285 · Cited by 5 · see citing works

Ordovician Stratigraphy, Facies, Deposition Environments, Faunas, Ichnofossils, and Paleogeography of Central Tyva

Sennikov, N. V. (2023) · Russian Geology and Geophysics · doi:10.2113/rgg20234550 · Cited by 4 · see citing works

First Record of Cryptospores from the Late Ordovician–Early Silurian of Colombia: New Contribution to the Understanding of Plant Terrestrialization

Rubinstein, C. V., Vargas, M. C., de la Parra, F., Caballero, V., Naranjo-Vesga, J., & Sánchez, N. (2023) · Ameghiniana · doi:10.5710/amgh.27.07.2023.3560 · Cited by 4 · see citing works

Phylogenomic frameworks from deep archaeplastid evolution to embryophyte diversification

Baştürk, M. N., Kunz, C. F., Darienko, T., Pröschold, T., de Vries, J., & Chen, H. (2026) · Current Biology · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2026.03.019 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Expanded marine anoxia at the Cambrian-Ordovician transition: Evidence from lime mudstone I/Ca and δ238U signatures of the GSSP in western Newfoundland, Canada

Li, J., & Azmy, K. (2023) · Marine and Petroleum Geology · doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106408 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Evolution of Silurian phytogeography, with the first report of Aberlemnia (Rhyniopsida) from the Pridoli of West Junggar, Xinjiang, China

Liu, B.-C., Zong, R., Wang, K., Bai, J., Wang, Y., & Xu, H. (2023) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111903 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Milankovitch-driven terrigenous deposit influx in Middle Ordovician marine successions of Western Australia: Insights for paleoclimate and geochronology

Falahatkhah, O., Ghaderi, A., Kadkhodaie, A., & Rezaee, R. (2025) · Marine and Petroleum Geology · doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.107282 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

First contact with greater gravity: Moss plants adapted via enhanced photosynthesis mediated by AP2/ERF transcription factors

Hanba, Y. T., Huong, T., Takemura, K., Kitajima, S., Vyacheslavova, A. O., Takata, M., Beier, M. P., Yokoi, M., Shinozawa, A., Maeda, A., et al. (2025) · Science Advances · doi:10.1126/sciadv.ado8664 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

High resolution Ordovician (Floian-Sandbian) carbon isotope stratigraphy from the Jiangnan slope, South China: The first complete record of the MDICE in δ13Corg and its global significance

Luan, X., Calner, M., Gong, F., Lehnert, O., Yan, G., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z., & Wu, R. (2025) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113227 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Carbon/phosphorus burial ratio reveals a rapid spread of land plants during the Late Ordovician

Cai, J., Tarhan, L. G., Lenton, T. M., Qiu, R., Peacock, C. L., Planavsky, N. J., Ju, P., Zhao, W., Xu, Z., Zhang, H., et al. (2026) · Nature Ecology & Evolution · doi:10.1038/s41559-026-02995-6 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Detrital U-Pb ages for the first well-preserved vascular plant Cooksonia from the UK and Irish macrofossil record.

Garza, H. K., Catlos, E. J., Brookfield, M. E., Malkowski, M. A., Chamberlain, K. R., Loewy, S., & Stockli, D. F. (2024) · Geological Magazine · doi:10.1017/s0016756824000384 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

The Ordovician System: Key concepts, events and its distribution across Europe

Harper, D. A. T., Lefèbvre, B., Percival, I. G., & Servais, T. (2023) · Geological Society London Special Publications · doi:10.1144/sp532-2023-8 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Links between deep Earth processes and hyperthermal and extreme cooling events

Wang, Y., Yang, S., Shen, B., Zhu, M., Chen, Z., Ji, W., Huang, X., Sun, M., & Zhang, S. (2023) · Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version) · doi:10.1360/tb-2023-0187 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

The Coral of Plants

Podani, J. (2020) · Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae · doi:10.5586/asbp.8937 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Tiering on Land – Trees and Forests (Late Palaeozoic)

Cleal, C. J. (2021) · Encyclopedia of Life Sciences · doi:10.1002/9780470015902.a0029273 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Comparative organic geochemistry of shale deposits of northern Appalachian Basin

Kar, N., Tamulonis, K. L., Smith, R. W., Woodard, S. C., Noll, M. R., Blocho, R. M., Brunette, A., & Heins, W. A. (2024) · Petroleum Research · doi:10.1016/j.ptlrs.2024.09.002 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Marine sediments track the spread of early land plants

Algeo, T. J. (2026) · Nature Ecology & Evolution · doi:10.1038/s41559-026-02988-5 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Late Ordovician (Katian) conodont community analysis and anoxic shallow water origin of organic-rich black shales, Red Head Rapids Formation, Southampton Island, Canadian Arctic

Zhang, S., & Barnes, C. R. (2022) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.110896 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Polish Palaeobotany: 750 Million Years of Plant History as Revealed in a Century of Studies. Palaeozoic Macrofossils

Pacyna, G., & Barbacka, M. (2022) · Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae · doi:10.5586/asbp.9123 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Can genomics tools assist in gaining insights from the aquatic angiosperms to transform crop plants with multiple carbon concentrating mechanisms to adapt and yield better in challenging environment?

Rangan, P. (2022) · Plant Physiology Reports · doi:10.1007/s40502-022-00700-w · Cited by 1 · see citing works

The nitrogen biogeochemical cycle on Ediacaran rocks: A study on carbonates from the Bambuí Group, São Francisco Basin

Ferreira, P. L. F. (2021) · doi:10.11606/d.44.2021.tde-09092021-075332

Paläozoikum II – Ordovizium und Silur

Elicki, O., & Breitkreuz, C. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-662-65764-5_5

Environmental conditions in the preglacial late Ordovician subtropical Iapetus Ocean: geochemistry of the type section of the Lower Hartfell Shales (Katian) at Hartfell, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland.Preprint

Brookfield, M. E., & Garza, H. K. (2024) · Research Square · doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-4138362/v1

Re-Evaluating the Probability of the Emergence of Intelligence Using Suitable Terrestrial DataPreprint

Stevenson, D. S., & Barrs, C. (2024) · Qeios · doi:10.32388/tk8e8x

Mass Extinctions and the Paleobotanical Record

Degani-Schmidt, I., Spiekermann, R., Gobo, W. V., & Jasper, A. (2025) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-443-15750-9.00101-4

Rapid Radiations Outweigh Reticulations During the Evolution of a 750-Million-Year-Old Lineage of Cyanobacteria

la Hoz, C. J. P., Haughland, D. L., Thauvette, D., Toni, S. A., Goyette, S., White, W., Medeiros, I. D., Cornet, L., Dvořák, P., Garfias-Gallegos, D., et al. (2025) · Molecular Biology and Evolution · doi:10.1093/molbev/msaf244

The palynology of the Ordovician–Silurian transition in the Puna Region, northwest Argentina

Rubinstein, C. V., Toro, B. A., & Sánchez, N. C. H. (2026) · Palynology · doi:10.1080/01916122.2026.2701730

Evolutionary origin of abscisic acid beyond land plants

Ma, C., Gu, J., Kuang, Y., Tarkowská, D., Gan, Q., & Lu, Y. (2026) · Trends in Plant Science · doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2026.06.008

Tracking coastal phosphorus delivery in deep timePreprint

Lechte, M. A., Wang, C., Robbins, L. J., Halverson, G. P., Wallace, M., Konhauser, K. O., Brengman, L. A., Tang, D., Hood, A. V. S., Porter, S. M., et al. (2026) · Research Square · doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-8857873/v1

Terrestrialization in the Ordovician

Wellman, C. H., Cascales‐Miñana, B., & Servais, T. (2022) · Geological Society London Special Publications · doi:10.1144/sp532-2022-92 · Cited by 24 · see citing works

Putative Late Ordovician land plants

Salamon, M. A., Gerrienne, P., Steemans, P., Gorzelak, P., Filipiak, P., Hérissé, A. L., Paris, F., Cascales‐Miñana, B., Brachaniec, T., Misz‐Kennan, M., et al. (2018) · New Phytologist · doi:10.1111/nph.15091 · Cited by 72 · see citing works

Plant evolution and terrestrialization during Palaeozoic times - the phylogenetic context

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An evo-devo perspective on no Ordovician land plants

Strother, P. K. (2023) · Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences Geology · doi:10.3176/earth.2023.31 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Ordovician land plants; evidence and interpretation

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