Hostname: page-component-6766d58669-h8lrw Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-05-15T15:52:13.745Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Graptolite biozone correlation charts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2011

D. K. LOYDELL
D. K. LOYDELL*
Affiliation:
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth PO1 3QL, UK
*
*E-mail: David.Loydell@port.ac.uk
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Charts are presented showing the correlation of graptolite biozonations for the Lower Ordovician to Lower Devonian, i.e. for the entire stratigraphical range of the planktonic graptoloid graptolites. Regions chosen are those for which the most detailed biostratigraphical studies have been undertaken. For Baltica, average graptolite zone (chron) duration appears to vary from c. 300000 years (Ludlow Epoch) to 2.4 Ma (Lochkovian Epoch).

Keywords

graptolitebiostratigraphyOrdovicianSilurianDevonian

Information

Type
Rapid Communication
Information
Geological Magazine , Volume 149 , Issue 1 , January 2012 , pp. 124 - 132
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

Albanesi, G. L. & Ortega, G. 2002. Advances on conodont-graptolite biostratigraphy of the Ordovician System of Argentina. Instituto Superior de Correlación Geológica Serie Correlación Geológica 16, 143–65.Google Scholar
Chen, X. 1984. The Silurian graptolite zonation of China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 21, 241–57.Google Scholar
Chen, X., Rong, J.-Y. & Fan, J.-X. 2003. A proposal for a candidate section for restudy of the base of Silurian. Instituto Superior de Correlación Geológica Serie Correlación Geológica 18, 119–23.Google Scholar
Chlupáč, I., Havlíček, V., Kříž, J., Kukal, Z. & Štorch, P. 1998. Palaeozoic of the Barrandian (Cambrian to Devonian). Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 181 pp.Google Scholar
Cooper, R. A. 1999. Ecostratigraphy, zonation and global correlation of earliest Ordovician planktic graptolites. Lethaia 32, 1–16.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Egenhoff, S. O., Maletz, J. & Erdtmann, B.-D. 2004. Lower Ordovician graptolite biozonation and lithofacies of southern Bolivia: relevance for palaeogeographic interpretations. Geological Magazine 141, 287–99.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Feng, H.-Z., Li, M., Zhang, Y.-D., Erdtmann, B.-D., Li, L.-X. & Wang, W.-H. 2009. Succession and global correlation of late Tremadoc graptolite zones from South China. Science in China Series D: Earth Sciences 52, 287–99.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Finney, S. C., Berry, W. B. N., Cooper, J. D., Ripperdan, R. L., Sweet, W. C., Jacobsen, S. R., Soufiane, A., Achab, A. & Noble, P. J. 1999. Late Ordovician mass extinctions: a new perspective from stratigraphic sections in central Nevada. Geology 27, 215–8.2.3.CO;2>CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fu, L., Zhang, Z. & Geng, L. 2000. The most complete sequence of Telychian graptolite zones in the world. Acta Geologica Sinica 74, 126–31.Google Scholar
Goldman, D., Leslie, S. A., Nõlvak, J., Young, S., Bergström, S. M. & Huff, W. D. 2007. The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Katian Stage of the Upper Ordovician Series at Black Knob Ridge, southeastern Oklahoma, USA. Episodes 30, 258–70.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gradstein, F., Ogg, J. & Smith, A. 2004. A Geologic Time Scale 2004. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 589 pp.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C., Robardet, M., Rábano, I., Sarmiento, G. N., San José Lancha, M. Á., Araújo, P. H. & Pieren Pidal, A. P. 2002. Ordovician. In The Geology of Spain (eds Gibbons, W. & Moreno, T.), pp. 31–49. London: Geological Society.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jackson, D. E. & Lenz, A. C. 2003. Taxonomic and biostratigraphical significance of the Tremadoc graptolite fauna from northern Yukon Territory, Canada. Geological Magazine 140, 131–56.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Koren', T. N. 1975. Early Devonian monograptids of the telleri biozone in the Urals-Tien Shan fold area. Acta Geologica Polonica 25, 1–26.Google Scholar
Koren', T. N. 1978. Early Devonian graptolites of South Fergana, Central Asia. Časopis pro Mineralogii a Geologii 23, 113–27.Google Scholar
Koren', T. N., Ahlberg, P. & Nielsen, A. T. 2003. The post-persculptus and pre-ascensus graptolite fauna in Scania, south-western Sweden: Ordovician or Silurian? Instituto Superior de Correlación Geológica Serie Correlación Geológica, 18, 133–8.Google Scholar
Koren', T. N. & Sujarkova, A. A. 1997. Late Ludlow and Pridoli monograptids from the Turkestan-Alai mountains, south Tien Shan. Palaeontographica, Abteilung A 247, 59–90.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Koren', T. N. & Sujarkova, A. A. 2004. The Ludlow (late Silurian) neocucullograptid fauna from the southern Tien Shan, Kyrghizstan. Alcheringa 28, 333–87.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kraft, J. & Kraft, P. 1999. Graptolite biozones of the Bohemian Lower and Middle Ordovician and their historical development. Journal of the Czech Geological Society 44, 53–62.Google Scholar
Kříž, J., Jaeger, H., Paris, F. & Schönlaub, H. P. 1986. Přídolí – the fourth subdivision of the Silurian. Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 129, 291–360.Google Scholar
Legrand, P. 2003. Silurian stratigraphy and paleogeography of the northern African margin of Gondwana. New York State Museum Bulletin 493, 59–104.Google Scholar
Lenz, A. C. 1988. Revision of upper Silurian and Lower Devonian graptolite biostratigraphy and morphological variation in Monograptus yukonensis and related Devonian graptolites, northern Yukon, Canada. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 14, 439–47.Google Scholar
Lenz, A. C. & Kozłowska-Dawidziuk, A. 2002. Late Wenlock and early Ludlow graptolite extinction, evolution and diversification: a reassessment. Special Papers in Palaeontology 67, 171–83.Google Scholar
Lenz, A. C. & Kozłowska-Dawidziuk, A. 2004. Ludlow and Pridoli (upper Silurian) Graptolites From the Arctic Islands, Canada. Ottawa: National Research Council of Canada, 141 pp.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lenz, A. C. & Melchin, M. J. 1991. Wenlock (Silurian) graptolites, Cape Phillips Formation, Canadian Arctic Islands. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 82, 211–37.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lenz, A. C., Robardet, M., Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C. & Piçarra, J. M. 1996. Devonian graptolites from southwestern Europe: a review with new data. Geological Journal 31, 349–58.3.0.CO;2-K>CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lindholm, K. 1991. Ordovician graptolites from the early Hunneberg of southern Scandinavia. Palaeontology 34, 283–327.Google Scholar
Loydell, D. K., Männik, P. & Nestor, V. 2003. Integrated biostratigraphy of the lower Silurian of the Aizpute-41 core, Latvia. Geological Magazine 140, 205–29.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Maletz, J. 1997 a. Graptolites from the Nicholsonograptus fasciculatus and Pterograptus elegans zones (Abereiddian, Ordovician) of the Oslo region, Norway. Greifswalder Geowissenschaftliche Beiträge 4, 5–98.Google Scholar
Maletz, J. 1997 b. Arenig biostratigraphy of the Pointe-de-Lévy slice, Quebec Appalachians, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 34, 733–52.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Maletz, J. 2005. Early Middle Ordovician graptolite biostratigraphy of the Lovisefred and Albjära drill cores (Scania, southern Sweden). Palaeontology 48, 763–80.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Maletz, J. & Ahlberg, P. In press. The Lerhamn drill core and its bearing for the graptolite biostratigraphy of the Ordovician Tøyen Shale in Scania, southern Sweden. Lethaia. doi: 10.1111/j.1502–3931.2010.00246.xGoogle Scholar
Maletz, J. & Egenhoff, S. O. 2001. Late Tremadoc to early Arenig graptolite faunas of southern Bolivia and their implications for a worldwide biozonation. Lethaia 34, 47–62.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Maletz, J., Egenhoff, S. & Alonso, R. 2010. The upper Tremadocian (Ordovician) graptolite Bryograptus: taxonomy, biostratigraphy and biogeography. Palaeontology 53, 59–75.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Melchin, M. J. 1989. Llandovery graptolite biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography, Cape Phillips Formation, Canadian Arctic Islands. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 26, 1726–46.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mullins, G. L. & Aldridge, R. J. 2004. Chitinozoan biostratigraphy of the basal Wenlock Series (Silurian) Global Stratotype Section and Point. Palaeontology 47, 745–73.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ogg, J. G., Ogg, G. & Gradstein, F. M. 2008. The Concise Geologic Time Scale. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 177 pp.Google Scholar
Pålsson, C. 2001. Graptolites from the Upper Ordovician Dicranograptus clingani Zone at Järrestad, Scania, southern Sweden. GFF 123, 217–24.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pålsson, C. 2002. Upper Ordovician graptolites and biostratigraphy of the Röstånga 1 core, Scania, S. Sweden. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 49, 9–23.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Piras, S., Simonetto, L. & Corradini, C. 2008. I graptoliti Siluriani della collezione “M. Gortani” del Museo Paleontologico “D. Lovisato” dell'Università degli studi di Cagliari. Gortania 29, 9–28.Google Scholar
Porębska, E. 1984. Latest Silurian and Early Devonian graptolites from Żdanów section, Bardo Mts. (Sudetes). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 52, 89–209.Google Scholar
Salvador, A. 1994. International Stratigraphic Guide. 2nd ed. Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America, 214 pp.Google Scholar
Štorch, P. 1994. Graptolite biostratigraphy of the Lower Silurian (Llandovery and Wenlock) of Bohemia. Geological Journal 29, 137–65.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Štorch, P. & Leone, F. 2003. Occurrence of the late Ordovician (Hirnantian) graptolite Normalograptus ojsuensis (Koren' and Mikhaylova, 1980) in south-western Sardinia, Italy. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 42, 31–8.Google Scholar
Štorch, P. & Loydell, D. K. 1996. The Hirnantian graptolites Normalograptus persculptus and ‘Glyptograptus’ bohemicus: stratigraphical consequences of their synonymy. Palaeontology 39, 869–81.Google Scholar
Štorch, P. & Massa, D. 2006. Middle Llandovery (Aeronian) graptolites of the western Murzuq Basin and Al Qarqaf Arch region, south-west Libya. Palaeontology 49, 83–112.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Toro, B. & Maletz, J. 2008. The proximal development in Cymatograptus (Graptoloidea) from Argentina and its relevance for the early evolution of the Dichograptacea. Journal of Paleontology 82, 974–83.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Urbanek, A. & Teller, L. 1997. Graptolites and stratigraphy of the Wenlock and Ludlow series in the East European Platform. Palaeontologia Polonica 56, 23–57.Google Scholar
VandenBerg, A. H. M. & Cooper, R. A. 1992. The Ordovician graptolite sequence of Australasia. Alcheringa 16, 33–85.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Webby, B. D., Paris, F., Droser, M. L. & Percival, I. G. (eds) 2004. The great Ordovician biodiversification event. New York: Columbia University Press, 484 pp.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Williams, S. H. & Stevens, R. K. 1988. Early Ordovician (Arenig) graptolites of the Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland, Canada. Palaeontographica Canadiana 5, 1–167.Google Scholar
Zalasiewicz, J. A., Taylor, L., Rushton, A. W. A., Loydell, D. K., Rickards, R. B. & Williams, M. 2009. Graptolites in British stratigraphy. Geological Magazine 146, 785–850.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zhan, R. & Jin, J. 2007. Ordovician–early Silurian (Llandovery) stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Upper Yangtze Platform, South China. Beijing: Science Press, 169 pp.Google Scholar
Zhang, Y., Chen, X., Yu, G., Goldman, D. & Liu, X. 2007. Ordovician and Silurian Rocks of Northwest Zhejiang and Northeast Jiangxi Provinces, SE China. Hefei: University of Science and Technology of China Press, 189 pp.Google Scholar