Publications by authors named "Daniel Vizcaino"
The Fezouata Biota (Morocco) is a unique Early Ordovician fossil assemblage. The discovery of this biota revolutionized our understanding of Earth's early animal diversifications-the Cambrian Explosion and the Ordovician Radiation-by suggesting an evolutionary continuum between both events. Herein, we describe Taichoute, a new fossil locality from the Fezouata Shale.
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- The Early Ordovician period is important for understanding life evolution on Earth, marking a shift between the Cambrian Explosion and the Ordovician Radiation, with limited fossils from the late Cambrian.
- This study investigates the assembly of trilobite and echinoderm communities in regions across Morocco, France, and Argentina, revealing that trilobite dispersal increased over time, while echinoderm dispersal remained constant.
- The findings suggest that the rise in trilobite dispersal was influenced by various factors, like changes in ocean conditions and tectonic activities, indicating a complex ecosystem structure during the initial phases of the Ordovician Radiation.
Detailed studies of the middle Ilerdian (lower Ypresian) blue marls of the Gulf of Languedoc (Corbières, Aude, France), belonging to the north Pyrenean foreland basin, have revealed a more abundant and diverse crinoid fauna than previously documented from the Lower Eocene. Here we describe five species of stalked crinoids in the family Rhizocrinidae (Cherbonniericrinus requiensis n. sp.
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