Serially arranged sets of eight septa‐like structures occur in the basal part of phosphatic
tubes of Sphenothallus from the early Ordovician (early Floian) Fenxiang Formation in Hubei …

Coral reefs form the most diverse of all marine ecosystems on the Earth. Corals are among
their main components and owe their bioconstructing abilities to a symbiosis with algae …

Due to the lack of biostratigraphically useful graptolites in the crinoidal and reefal Chicotte
Formation on Anticosti Island (Québec, Canada), the precise chronostratigraphic position of …

Wellin patch reefs are small Upper Eifelian build? ups within the fine? grained argillaceous
limestone of the Hanonet Formation. Whereas the reefs themselves are not well exposed …

Recommended reference to this publication: Kershaw, S., Da Silva, A.-C. & Sendino, C.
2021. British Silurian stromatoporoids. Fauna, palaeobiology, and palaeogeographical …

The taxonomic assignation and ecological implications of the genus Syringoalcyon Termier
& Termier, 1945 have been a palaeontological problem for a long time. Carboniferous …

Most Alcyonacea (subclass Octocorallia) have skeletons made up of small calcareous
pieces called sclerites that are difficult to both preserve and recognize, which explains the …

Calices within a substantially silicified corallum of Heliolites garnieri, from the lower part of
the Barlow Inlet Formation (Ludlow) on south-western Devon Island, contain what appear to …

Secondary soft-bottom dwellers share the problem that their ancestors, attached to hard
substrates, had lost their mobility. On soft substrates, only a limited number of alternative …

The concept of the sum of common features has been used in order to compare the
Heliolitida with the Tabulata and Rugosa and determine the position of Heliolitida in the …