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CONTENTS

Time-specific facies: The color and texture of biotic events

A. Ferretti, K. Histon, P.I. McLaughlin and C.E. Brett . . . 1 “Time-specific facies”—a great concept introduced by a great man: Otto H. Walliser

E. Schindler . . . 3 Time-specific aspects of facies: State of the art, examples, and possible causes

C.E. Brett, P.I. McLaughlin, K. Histon, E. Schindler and A. Ferretti . . . 6 Part A– Time-Specific Facies and texture of events

“Time-Specific Facies” and biological crises — The Kellwasser Event interval near the Frasnian/Famennian boundary (Late Devonian)

M. Gereke and E. Schindler . . . 19 Diagenetically-enhanced trilobite obrution deposits in concretionary limestones: The paradox of“rhythmic events beds”

C.E. Brett, J.J. Zambito IV, E. Schindler and R.T. Becker . . . 30 Tempestites in a teapot? Condensation-generated shell beds in the Upper Ordovician, Cincinnati Arch, USA

B.F. Dattilo, C.E. Brett and T.J. Schramm . . . 44 Biotic characteristics of Ordovician deep-water cherts from Eastern Australia

I.G. Percival . . . 63 Late Ordovician massive-bedded Thalassinoides ichnofacies along the palaeoequator of Laurentia

J. Jin, D.A.T. Harper, J.A. Rasmussen and P.M. Sheehan . . . 73 Biotic dynamics and carbonate microfacies of the conspicuous Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician)‘Täljsten’ interval, south-central Sweden

M.E. Eriksson, A. Lindskog, M. Calner, J.I.S. Mellgren, S.M. Bergström, F. Terfelt and B. Schmitz . . . 89 Palaeoecology of transported brachiopod assemblages embedded in black shale, Cape Phillips Formation (Silurian), Arctic Canada

P. Chen, J. Jin and A.C. Lenz . . . 104 Genesis of unusual lithologies associated with the Late Middle Devonian Taghanic biocrisis in the type Taghanic succession of New York

State and Pennsylvania

G.C. Baird, J.J. Zambito IV and C.E. Brett . . . 121 Systematic occurrences of malformed (teratological) acritarchs in the run-up of Early Palaeozoic

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A. Munnecke, A. Delabroye, T. Servais, T.R.A. Vandenbroucke and M. Vecoli . . . 137 Part B– Time-Specific Facies and color of events

Judging by color in the early history of geology and paleontology

E. Vaccari . . . 147 Beyond black shales: The sedimentary and stable isotope records of oceanic anoxic events in a dominantly oxic basin (Silurian;

Appalachian Basin, USA)

P.I. McLaughlin, P. Emsbo and C.E. Brett . . . 153 From black-and-white to colour in the Silurian

A. Ferretti, B. Cavalazzi, R. Barbieri, F. Westall, F. Foucher and R. Todesco . . . 178

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Paleoenvironmental and temporal significance of variably colored Paleozoic orthoconic nautiloid cephalopod accumulations

K. Histon . . . 193 Colour banding in a latest Neoproterozoic–Cambrian microbially variegated sabkha of the Taoudeni Basin, Adrar of Mauritania

J.J. Álvaro . . . 209 Color/facies changes and Global Events, a hoax? A case study from the Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) in the Spanish Central Pyrenees

J.I. Valenzuela-Ríos and J.-C. Liao . . . 219 The Silurian nautiloid-bearing strata of the Cellon Section (Carnic Alps, Austria): Color variation related to events

K. Histon . . . 231 Time-specific black mudstones and global hyperwarming on the Cambrian–Ordovician slope and shelf of the Laurentia palaeocontinent

E. Landing . . . 256

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