ordovician

Speech parts

1. ordovician - Noun

2. ordovician - Adjective

3. Ordovician - Proper noun

Meaning

Of or pertaining to a division of the Silurian formation, corresponding in general to the Lower Silurian of most authors, exclusive of the Cambrian.

The Ordovician formation.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

Ordovician period cambrian triassic pleistocene eocene cretaceous devonian jurassic miocene permian silurian carboniferous pliocene oligocene Holocene
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Phrases with the word

Ordovician age Ordovician epoch

Examples

An Upper Ordovician cobble with the edrioasteroid Cystaster stellatus and the thin branching cyclostome bryozoan Corynotrypa. Source: Internet

Biochemical sedimentary rocks Outcrop of Ordovician oil shale ( kukersite ), northern Estonia Biochemical sedimentary rocks are created when organisms use materials dissolved in air or water to build their tissue. Source: Internet

Bioimmuration is known in the fossil record from the Ordovician Wilson, MA, Palmer, T. J. and Taylor, P. D. (1994) Earliest preservation of soft-bodied fossils by epibiont bioimmuration: Upper Ordovician of Kentucky. Source: Internet

Bryozoans are among the three dominant groups of Paleozoic fossils. citation The oldest species with a mineralized skeleton occurs in the Lower Ordovician. Source: Internet

Bryozoans have contributed to carbonate sedimentation in marine life since the Ordovician period. Source: Internet

Charles Lapworth resolved the conflict by defining a new Ordovician system including the contested beds. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Ordos ordovian Ordovices Ordovician period Ordoyne ordre