Bibliografía
Introducción
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Dodd, Sarah C., Conall Mac Niocaill y Adrian R. Muxworthy, «Long duration (> 4 Ma) and steady-state volcanic activity in the early Cretaceous Paraná-Etendeka Large Igneous Province: New palaeomagnetic data from Namibia», Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 414 (2015), pp. 16-29.
Hazen, Robert M., The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet, Nueva York, Viking, 2012. (Hay trad. esp.: La historia de la Tierra: los primeros 4.500 millones de años, del polvo estelar al planeta viviente, México, Océano, 2015).
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Taylor, Paul D., Extinctions in the History of Life, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Ward, Peter D., Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future, Nueva York, Smithsonian/HarperCollins, 2007.
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El principio
Bailey, R. H., y B. H. Bland, «Ediacaran fossils from the Neoproterozoic Boston Bay Group, Boston area, Massachusetts», Geological Society of America: Abstracts with Programs, 32 (2000).
Erwin, Douglas H., y Sarah Tweedt, «Ecological drivers of the EdiacaranCambrian diversification of Metazoa», Evolutionary Ecology, 26/2 (2012), pp. 417-433.
Erwin, Douglas H., y James W. Valentine, The Cambrian Explosion: The Construction of Animal Biodiversity, Nueva York, W. H. Freeman, 2013.
Laflamme, Marc, et al., «The end of the Ediacara biota: Extinction, biotic replacement, or Cheshire Cat?», Gondwana Research, 23/2 (2013), pp. 558-573.
Lenton, Timothy M., Richard A. Boyle, Simon W. Poulton, Graham A. Shields-Zhou y Nicholas J. Butterfield, «Co-evolution of eukaryotes and ocean oxygenation in the Neoproterozoic era», Nature Geoscience, 7/4 (2014), pp. 257-265, doi:10.1038/ngeo2108.
Williams, Mark, et al., «Is the fossil record of complex animal behaviour a stratigraphical analogue for the Anthropocene?», Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 395/1 (2014), pp. 143-148.
Zalasiewicz, Jan, et al., «The technofossil record of humans», Anthropocene Review, 1/1 (2014), pp. 34-43, doi:10.1177/2053019613514953.
La extinción masiva de finales del Ordovícico
Armstrong, Howard A., y David A. T. Harper, «An earth system approach to understanding the end-Ordovician (Hirnantian) mass extinction», Geological Society of America: Special Papers, 505 (2014), pp. 287-300.
Eiler, John M., «Paleoclimate reconstruction using carbonate clumped isotope thermometry», Quaternary Science Reviews, 30/25 (2011), pp. 3.575-3.588.
Fortey, Richard, «Olenid trilobites: The oldest known chemoautotrophic symbionts?», Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 97/12 (2000), pp. 6.574-6.578.
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Graham, Alan, A Natural History of the New World: The Ecology and Evolution of Plants in the Americas, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Grahn, Yngve, y Stig M. Bergstrom, «Chitinozoans from the Ordovician-Silurian boundary beds in the eastern Cincinnati region in Ohio and Kentucky», Ohio Journal of Science, 85/4 (septiembre 1985), pp. 175-183.
Harper, David A. T., Emma U. Hammarlund y Christian M. Ø. Rasmussen, «End Ordovician extinctions: A coincidence of causes», Gondwana Research, 25/4 (2014), pp. 1.294-1.307.
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Kröger, Björn, «Cambrian-Ordovician cephalopod palaeogeography and diversity», Geological Society, London: Memoirs, 38/1 (2013), pp. 429-448.
Kumpulainen, R. A., «The Ordovician glaciation in Eritrea and Ethiopia, NE Africa», Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products: International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication, 39 (2009), pp. 321-342.
Lamsdell, James C., et al., «The oldest described eurypterid: A giant Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) megalograptid from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte of Iowa», BMC Evolutionary Biology, 15/1 (2015), p. 1.
LeHeron, D. P., «The Hirnantian glacial landsystem of the Sahara: A meltwater-dominated system», en J. A. Dowdeswell, M. Canals, M. Jakobsson, B. J. Todd, E. K. Dowdeswell y K. Hogan (eds.), Atlas of Submarine Glacial Landforms: Modern, Quaternary, and Ancient, Londres, Geological Society Memoirs, 2016.
Le Heron, Daniel Paul, y James Howard, «Evidence for Late Ordovician glaciation of Al Kufrah Basin, Libya», Journal of African Earth Sciences, 58/2 (2010), pp. 354-364.
Melchin, Michael J., et al., «Environmental changes in the Late Ordovician-Early Silurian: Review and new insights from black shales and nitrogen isotopes», Geological Society of America Bulletin, 125/11-12 (2013), pp. 1.635-1.670.
Meyer, David L., y R. A. Davis, A Sea Without Fish: Life in the Ordovician Sea of the Cincinnati Region, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2009.
Munnecke, Axel, Mikael Calner, David A. T. Harper y Thomas Servais, «Ordovician and Silurian sea-water chemistry, sea level, and climate: A synopsis», Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 296/3-4 (2010), pp. 389-413.
Nesvorný, David, et al., «Asteroidal source of L chondrite meteorites», Icarus, 200/2 (2009), pp. 698-701.
O’Donoghue, James, «The Second Coming», New Scientist, 198/2.660 (2008), pp. 34-37.
Rudkin, David M., et al., «The world’s biggest trilobite—Isotelus rex new species from the Upper Ordovician of northern Manitoba, Canada», Journal of Paleontology, 77/1 (2003), pp. 99-112.
Skehan, James William, Roadside Geology of Massachusetts, Missoula (Massachusetts), Mountain Press Publishing, 2001.
Upton, John, «Atlantic circulation weakens compared with last thousand years», Scientific American, Climate Central (24 de marzo de 2015).
Webby, B. D., The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, Nueva York, Columbia University Press, 2004.
Young, Seth A., et al., «A major drop in seawater 87Sr/86Sr during the Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian): Links to volcanism and climate?», Geology, 37/10 (2009), pp. 951-954.
Zalasiewicz, Jan, y Mark Williams, «The Anthropocene: A comparison with the Ordovician-Silurian boundary», Rendiconti Lincei, 25/1 (2014), pp. 5-12.
La extinción masiva del Devónico
Algeo, Thomas J., et al., «Hydrographic conditions of the Devono-Carboniferous North American Seaway inferred from sedimentary Mo-TOC relationships», Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 256/3 (2007), pp. 204-230.
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Alshahrani, Saeed, y James E. Evans, «Shallow-water origin of a Devonian black shale, Cleveland Shale Member (Ohio Shale), Northeastern Ohio, USA», Open Journal of Geology, 4/12 (2014), p. 636.
Botkin-Kowacki, Eva, «Lungs found in mysterious deep-sea fish», Christian Science Monitor (16 de septiembre de 2015).
Carmichael, Sarah K., et al., «A new model for the Kellwasser Anoxia Events (Late Devonian): Shallow water anoxia in an open oceanic setting in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt», Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 399 (201...