@misc{murchison1854siluria5,
    author = "Murchison, R. I",
    title = "Siluria",
    year = "1854",
    howpublished = "The History of the Oldest Known Rocks Containing Organic Remains: London, John Murray",
    note = "talkorigins\_source = {true}; raw\_reference = {Murchison, R. I., 1854, Siluria: The History of the Oldest Known Rocks Containing Organic Remains: London, John Murray.}"
}

@misc{barrande1887systme1,
    author = "Barrande, J",
    title = "Systme Silurien du Centre de la Bohme-Recherches Palontologiques",
    year = "1887",
    howpublished = "Praha, v. 7 (Echinodermes), Part 1 (Cystides), 233 p",
    note = "talkorigins\_source = {true}; raw\_reference = {Barrande, J., 1887, Systme Silurien du Centre de la Bohme-Recherches Palontologiques: Praha, v. 7 (Echinodermes), Part 1 (Cystides), 233 p.}"
}

@misc{ziegler1966the6,
    author = "Ziegler, A. M",
    title = "The Silurian brachiopod Eocoelia hemisphaerica(J. de C. Sowerby) and related species",
    year = "1966",
    howpublished = "Palaeontology, v. 9, p. 523-543",
    note = "talkorigins\_source = {true}; raw\_reference = {Ziegler, A. M., 1966, The Silurian brachiopod Eocoelia hemisphaerica(J. de C. Sowerby) and related species: Palaeontology, v. 9, p. 523-543.}"
}

@article{bergström1968some,
    author = "Bergström, Jan",
    title = "SOME ORDOVICIAN AND SILURIAN BRACHIOPOD ASSEMBLAGES",
    year = "1968",
    journal = "Lethaia",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3931.1968.tb01739.x",
    doi = "10.1111/j.1502-3931.1968.tb01739.x",
    number = "3",
    pages = "230-237",
    volume = "1"
}

@misc{berry1970correlation2,
    author = "Berry, W. B. N. and Boucot, A. J",
    title = "Correlation of the North American Silurian rocks, 102 of Geological Society of America, Special Paper",
    year = "1970",
    howpublished = "289 p",
    note = "talkorigins\_source = {true}; raw\_reference = {Berry, W. B. N., and Boucot, A. J., 1970, Correlation of the North American Silurian rocks, 102 of Geological Society of America, Special Paper: 289 p.}"
}

@article{hancock1974the,
    author = "HANCOCK, NIGEL J. and HURST, JOHN M. and FÜRSICH, FRANZ T.",
    title = "The depths inhabited by Silurian brachiopod communities",
    year = "1974",
    journal = "Journal of the Geological Society",
    abstract = "The five Llandovery brachiopod communities have equivalents in the Wenlock and Ludlow; in addition the brachiopods spread into deeper environments where a sixth (Visbyella) community is described. Size, density and 'biomass' of brachiopods are shown to decrease with depth, while the diversity of the communities increases with depth. Comparison with modern analogues suggests that the deepest Wenlock and Ludlow communities inhabited depths as great as 1000 to 1500 m. In the Wenlock of Wales, the Visbyella community extends to the deepest parts of the basin, and there is no clear distinction between shelf and basin areas.",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.130.2.0151",
    doi = "10.1144/gsjgs.130.2.0151",
    number = "2",
    pages = "151-156",
    volume = "130"
}

@article{copper1977the,
    author = "Copper, Paul",
    title = "The late Silurian brachiopod genus Atrypoidea",
    year = "1977",
    journal = "Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897709454979",
    doi = "10.1080/11035897709454979",
    number = "1",
    pages = "10-26",
    volume = "99"
}

@article{mikulic1985a,
    author = "Mikulic, D. G. and Briggs, Derek Ernest Gilmor and Kluessendorf, Joanne",
    title = "A new exceptionally preserved biota from the Lower Silurian of Wisconsin, U. S. A",
    year = "1985",
    journal = "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences",
    abstract = "A new biota including lightly sclerotized and soft-bodied organisms occurs in finely laminated argillaceous dolomites of late Llandoverian age in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. This discovery fills a gap between well known Cambrian and Devonian Konservat Lagerstatten. The biota is dominated by arthropods. A dalmanitid is the most numerous of 13 genera of trilobites; the crustaceans include phyllocarids and ostracods; the chelicerates are represented by the earliest well preserved xiphosure and the fauna includes a possible marine uniramian. The earliest representative of the enigmatic class Thylacocephala, and at least three arthropods of uncertain affinity are also present. There are at least four worm taxa including a possible leech and a papillate annelid. The locality has also yielded a conodont animal, Panderodus. Graptolites and conulariids are common, but echinoderms, brachiopods, bryozoans, corals and molluscs are extremely rare or absent. The unusual composition and exceptional preservation of this assemblage indicates that the biota lived and died in environments rarely represented in the Silurian fossil record.",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1985.0140",
    doi = "10.1098/rstb.1985.0140",
    number = "1148",
    pages = "75-85",
    volume = "311"
}

@misc{mikulic1985a3,
    author = "Mikulic, D. G. and Briggs, D. E. G. and Kluessendorf, J",
    title = "A Silurian soft- bodied fauna",
    year = "1985",
    howpublished = "Science, v. 228, p. 715-717",
    note = "talkorigins\_source = {true}; raw\_reference = {Mikulic, D. G., Briggs, D. E. G., and Kluessendorf, J., 1985, A Silurian soft- bodied fauna: Science, v. 228, p. 715-717.}"
}

@article{mikulic1985a4,
    author = "Mikulic, D. G. and Briggs, D. E. G. and Kluessendorf, J",
    title = "A new exceptionally preserved biota from the Lower Silurian of Wisconsin, USA",
    year = "1985",
    journal = "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London B, v. 311, p. 75-85",
    note = "talkorigins\_source = {true}; raw\_reference = {Mikulic, D. G., Briggs, D. E. G., and Kluessendorf, J., 1985, A new exceptionally preserved biota from the Lower Silurian of Wisconsin, USA: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London B, v. 311, p. 75-85.}"
}

@article{meyer1986discovering,
    author = "Meyer, Ronald C. and Gunderson, Gerald O.",
    title = "Discovering a New Silurian Soft-Bodied Fauna",
    year = "1986",
    journal = "Rocks \& Minerals",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1080/00357529.1986.11768462",
    doi = "10.1080/00357529.1986.11768462",
    number = "6",
    pages = "310-319",
    volume = "61"
}

@article{boucot1992benthic,
    author = "Boucot, Arthur J.",
    title = "BENTHIC BRACHIOPOD COMMUNITY CHANGES THAT REFLECT SILURIAN BIOEVENTS",
    year = "1992",
    journal = "Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Geology",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.3176/geol.1992.4.03",
    doi = "10.3176/geol.1992.4.03",
    number = "4",
    pages = "193-197",
    volume = "41"
}

@article{lenz1993a,
    author = "Lenz, Alfred C.",
    title = "A Silurian sponge-inarticulate brachiopod life? association",
    year = "1993",
    journal = "Journal of Paleontology",
    abstract = "The association of sponges and encrusting, attached, or burrowing organisms has been commented upon relatively little. Finks (1960) and Gundrum (1979), for example, noted the association of articulate brachiopods, barnacle borings, bryozoans, gastropods, and rugose and tabulate corals with various upper Paleozoic sponges and, more specific to this paper, Morris and Whittington (1985) illustrated the inarticulate brachiopod Micromitra attached to the Cambrian sponge Pirania. During the summer of 1991, two scree-derived specimens of sponge-inarticulate brachiopod associations on two separate pieces of shale were collected from Abbott River (Figure 1), Cornwallis Island, Arctic Canada (75°14′N, 95°45′W).",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000021259",
    doi = "10.1017/s0022336000021259",
    number = "1",
    pages = "138-139",
    volume = "67"
}

@incollection{crossref2001early,
    title = "Early Silurian stricklandiid brachiopod evolution in eastern North America",
    year = "2001",
    booktitle = "Brachiopods",
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    doi = "10.1201/9780203210437-27",
    pages = "191-202"
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@incollection{jin2001early,
    author = "Jin, Jisuo",
    title = "Early Silurian stricklandiid brachiopod evolution in eastern North America",
    year = "2001",
    booktitle = "Systematics Association Special Volumes",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1201/9780203210437.ch19",
    doi = "10.1201/9780203210437.ch19",
    pages = "177-188"
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@incollection{beznosova2018silurian,
    author = "Beznosova, Tatyana M.",
    title = "Silurian Brachiopod Biostratigraphy, Ne Timan-N Urals, Russia",
    year = "2018",
    booktitle = "Brachiopods",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315138602-7",
    doi = "10.1201/9781315138602-7",
    pages = "35-40"
}