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Last updated: 3 February 2022
For the past 25 years, major evolutionary events such as the ‘Cambrian Explosion’ and the ‘Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event’ have been investigated through various research projects and regarded as distinct evolutionary events. However, the data used was strongly biased towards a limited number of geographic areas (Europe, North America). The present research aims, through a multidisciplinary approach and by bringing together an array of international specialists, to question this hypothesis by investigating and filling the numerous knowledge gaps related to the various aspects of the Ordovician biodiversification.
Header image: The foothills of the Anti-Atlas, Morocco, site of previous fieldwork. © Yves Candela
Project title
Rocks and the Rise of Ordovician Life: Filling knowledge gaps in the Early Palaeozoic Biodiversification
Project active
2021 - 2025
Research theme
Sustainability
National Museums Scotland – Edinburgh, Scotland – Dr Yves Candela
Université Claude Bernard – Lyon, France – Dr Bertrand Lefebvre
Université Cadi Ayyad – Marrakech, Morocco – Prof Khadija El Hariri
Golestan University – Gorgan, Iran – Dr Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour
Russian Geological Survey – Saint-Petersburg, Russia – Dr Elena Raevskaya
University of Tartu – Estonia – Dr Oive Tinn
National University of Córdoba – Argentina – Dr Beatriz Waisfeld
Central South University – Changsha, China – Dr Wenhui Wang
We also strive to encourage participation of ‘emerging’ countries through enhanced collaboration, field work, educational and outreach programmes together with workshops.
To date 192 scientists representing 42 countries are participating to our project.
Ordovician outcrops at the westernmost foot of the Cordillera Oriental, western Argentina. © Dr. Beatriz G. Waisfeld, National University of Córdoba
Dr Yves Candela
