Living evidence of a fossil survival strategy raises hope for warming-affected corals

DK Kersting, C Linares - Science Advances, 2019 - science.org
Climate change is affecting reef-building corals worldwide, with little hope for recovery.
However, coral fossils hint at the existence of environmental stress–triggered survival …

Environmental parameters of a coral assemblage from the Akerchi Formation (Carboniferous), Adarouch Area, central Morocco

I Said, S Rodríguez, M Berkhli, P Cózar… - 2010 - digital.csic.es
[EN] Rich assemblages of rugose corals occur in the Tizra, Akerchi and Idmarrach
formations (Mississippian) near El-Hajeb City. The Akerchi Formation, approximately 140 m …

Inventory and analysis of the distribution of Viséan corals from the Guadiato Area (Córdoba, SW Spain)

S Rodríguez, ID Somerville, P Cózar… - Spanish Journal of …, 2016 - turia.uv.es
The coral content of the Viséan rocks from the Guadiato Area (SW Spain) have been studied
during the last 25 year. Part of the coral assemblages have been previously described, but …

Late Moscovian (mid-Pennsylvanian) rugose corals from Wadi Araba (Egypt, Eastern Desert): taxonomy, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography

M Kora, HG Herbig, H El Desouky - Geobios, 2019 - Elsevier
An important late Moscovian rugose coral association is described from the Rod El Hamal
Formation of the Wadi Araba area (northern Eastern Desert, Egypt). The upper part of the …

An integrate analysis of an Hauterivian coral biostrome from the Agrio Formation, Neuquén Basin, west-central Argentina

RM Garberoglio, DG Lazo, RM Palma - Cretaceous Research, 2013 - Elsevier
A coral biostrome from the lower Hauterivian of the Neuquén Basin, west-central Argentina,
was examined in detail. Taxonomic analysis established it as a monospecific assemblage of …

Paragenesis of silicified mid-Paleozoic and mid-Cenozoic corals based on petrography and silicon isotopic analyses

CN Andrade, HS Chafetz, TJ Lapen - Chemical Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
Petrographic analyses of silicified coral fossils from the Upper Ordovician Cutter Formation
and Silurian Fusselman Formation of New Mexico, and the Paleogene-Lower Neogene …

Taphonomy of Early Permian benthic assemblages (Carnic Alps, Austria): carbonate dissolution versus biogenic carbonate precipitation

D Sanders, K Krainer - Facies, 2005 - Springer
Abstract During the Early Permian, in the area of the Carnic Alps, a quartz-gravelly beach
fringed a mixed siliciclastic-carbonate lagoon with fleshy algal meadows and oncoids; …

Silicification in Mississippian Lodgepole Formation, northeastern flank of Williston basin, Manitoba, Canada

HR Young, R Li, M Kuroda - Journal of Earth Science, 2012 - Springer
Five types of replacement silica are recognized in the Lower Mississippian Virden Member
carbonates on the northeastern flank of Williston basin: microcrystalline quartz, chalcedonic …

Clypeotheca, a new skeletal structure in scleractinian corals: a potential stress indicator

LD Nothdurft, GE Webb - Coral Reefs, 2009 - Springer
Physiological responses to environmental stress are increasingly well studied in
scleractinian corals. This work reports a new stress-related skeletal structure we term …

Symbiosis in Late Devonian-Mississippian corals: a review

O Vinn - Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 2017 - Springer
There are four symbiotic associations involving corals known from the Late Devonian.
Corals formed at least six symbiotic associations in the Mississippian, most of which …