I. Intermediate and felsic (491.7 ± 3.5 Ma ÷ 479.9 ± 2.1 Concordia ages) transitional volcanic rocks embedded within a Cambro–Ordovician terrigenous succession, that occurs with continuity in external and inner nappes, bounded to the top by the Sardic unconformity.
II. This Cambrian–Lower Ordovician succession is cut by calc-alkalic rhyodacites, which yielded a Concordia age of 465.4 ± 1.4 Ma, confirming their pertinence to the huge, bimodal Mid-Ordovician arc volcanism, commonly interpreted as the widespread marker of the Rheic ocean subduction.
III. Alkalic metaepiclastites in the external nappe, within the post-Caradocian transgressive sequence, dated at 440 ± 1.7 Ma, likely related to rifting and collapse of the Mid-Ordovician volcanic arc.
In the reshaped Lower Palaeozoic stratigraphy of Sardinia, the timing of the early steps of the Variscan Wilson cycle can be inferred.