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Fossil Corals and Sponges

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Fossil Corals and Sponges

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ISBN-13978-3-7001-3826-6
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Bernhard Hubmann, Werner Piller

Title pages

1

Contents

3

Preface

7

J. E. Sorauf

The function of dissepiments and marginaria in the Rugosa (Cnidaria, Zoantharia)

11

B.-Y. Bae, R. J. Elias, Y.-H. Jun, D.-J. Lee

Axial increase in some early tabulate corals

31

R. J. Elias, D. R. Porter, G. A. Young

Biometric analysis of corallite size in the colonial rugosan Crenulites

43

J. Hladil

The earliest growth stages of Amphipora

51

A. Le Hérissé, Y. Plusquellec, F. Torneur

Structure and microstructure of Pachypora lamellicornis Lindström, 1873, a tabulate coral from the Silurian of Gotland, Sweden

67

L. D. Nothdurft, G. E. Webb

‘Shingle’ microstructure in scleractinian corals: a possible analogue for lamellar and microlamellar microstructure in Palaeozoic tabulate corals

85

N. A. Buster, J. E. Sorauf

Microarchitectural change in density bands of the scleractinian Montastraea faveolata, Looe Key Reef, Florida Keys, USA: a preliminary report

101

A. Perejón - E. Moreno-Eiris

Ovetian cryptic archaeocyaths, lower Cambrian from Las Ermitas (Córdoba, Spain)

113

A. May

Lower Devonian stromatoporoids of the Sierra Morena (Southern Spain) and their palaeogeographic affinities

139

B. Mistiaen

An older Devonian stromatoporoid from the Ardennes, St. Joseph Formation, Emsian (Vireux, France)

153

B. Mistiaen, I. Méndez-Bedia

Stromatoporoids from the latest reefal episode in the Devonian (late Frasnian) of the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain)

167

V. Grytsenko

Distribution of corals on the Silurian Podolian Shelf

185

S. Schröder, F. Soto

Lower Devonian rugose coral faunas from the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain): phases of development and response to sea-level fluctuations

199

N. Adachi, Y. Ezaki

Microscopic microbialite textures and their components in a Lower Devonian lagoonal facies of the Fukuji Formation, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan

215

E. Poty

The “Avins event”: a remarkable worldwide spread of corals at the end of the Tournaisian (Lower Carboniferous)

231

E. W. Bamber, J. Fedorowski

Remarks on lithostrotionid phylogeny in western North America and western Europe

251

S. Rodríguez, I. D. Somerville

Comparisons of rugose corals from the Upper Visean of SW Spain and Ireland: implications for improved resolution in Late Mississippian coral biostratigraphy

175

P. Cózar, S. Rodríguez, I. D. Somerville

Late Visean rugose coral faunas from South-Eastern Ireland: composition, depositional setting and palaeoecology of Siphonodendron biostromes

307

S. Rodríguez, I. D. Somerville

Rugose coral associations from the late Visean (Carboniferous) of Ireland, Britain and SW Spain

329

M. Berkhli, S. Rodríguez, I. Said

Preliminary data on the coral distribution in the Upper Visean (Mississippian) succession from Adarouch area (NE Central Marocco)

353

M. Aretz, J. Nudds

Palaeoecology of the late Visean (Dinantian) coral-chaetetid biostrome at Little Asby Scar (Cumbria, Great Britain)

365

O. L. Kossovaya

Ecological aspects of upper Carboniferous – lower Permian ‘Cyathaxonia Fauna’ taxonomical diversity (the Urals)

383

Y. Hirata, S. Irie, M. Kato, A. Mimura, Y. Okimura, R. Umeda Y. Ezaki

Carboniferous Rugosa in the Hina Limestone, Akiyoshi Terrane, Southwest Japan: fauna endemic to the Panthalassan Ocean

407

E. Morycowa, J. Szulc

Remarks on Middle Triassic (Anisian) scleractinian corals from the Cracow-Silesian region, Poland (Northern Peri-Tethyan realm)

421

A. Altuna, P. Busquets, V. Etayo, G. Álvarez-Pérez

Five new species of Bartonian (Eocene) corals: Jaca Basin, Pyrenees, Spain

435

G. C. Gunter, S. F. Mitchell, T. A. Stemann

Reef coral diversity in the Late Maastrichtian of Jamaica

455

K. G. Johnson

Reef-coral diversity in the Late Oligocene Antigua Formation and temporal variation of local diversity on Caribbean Cenozoic Reefs

471

S. Inagaki, Y. Iryu, A. Nambu, S. Ozawa, Y. Suzuki

Plio-Pleistocene reef evolution of Kita-daito-jima, Japan

493

J. E. N. Veron

Corals: pointing to a different evolution

507

T. Wrzołek

Perspectives of research on fossil corals and sponges

517

V. N. Zlatarski

The scleractinian species – a holistic approach

523