How to Use Ordovician in a Sentence
Ordovician
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The fossils come from a period of time known as the Ordovician when life was becoming more complex.
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Katie Hunt,
CNN,
2023-05-01
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Around that time, during what’s called the Ordovician period, there seems to have been an increase in impact craters on Earth.
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Michael Irving,
New Atlas,
2024-09-16
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The Ordovician period came to a chaotic end with a major mass extinction event that rocked Earth, eliminating about 85 percent of all species.
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Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
2024-02-09
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Speculative studies have suggested that events in Earth's fossil record, such as the Late Ordovician mass extinction, could have been caused by a gamma-ray-burst strike.
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Peter Tuthill,
Scientific American,
2023-08-15
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The first of the Big Five mass extinctions transpired about 445 million years ago, marking the boundary between the Ordovician and Silurian periods back when fish and land plants were still relatively new.
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Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2024-07-12
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