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Reef formation in the Late Ordovician was relatively widespread in the Sandbian and Katian times. In the late Katian, it gradually reduced and ended in the Hirnantian, before the end of the Ordovician. In parallel, reef-building skeleton frame-building biota disappeared and was replaced with algae and calcimicrobes.
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Original Russian Text © V.G. Kuznetsov, 2018, published in Stratigrafiya, Geologicheskaya Korrelyatsiya, 2018, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 24–30.
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Kuznetsov, V.G. Late Ordovician Reefs and the Biological Crisis at the Ordovician–Silurian Boundary. Stratigr. Geol. Correl. 26, 261–266 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593818030085
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