Widespread development of microbialites characterizes the substrate and ecological
response during the aftermath of two of the 'big five'mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic …

The early Toarcian biotic crisis (~ 183 Ma), characterized in marine environments by abrupt
temperature fluctuations, included a hyperthermal event (Jenkyns Event) with sea-level …

It is usually very difficult to identify and quantify the relative influence of tectonics, eustasy
and climate on carbonate system evolution from sedimentary records. In order to improve …

During the Late Jurassic, the Kraków–Częstochowa Upland area was situated on a shelf
that linked a shallow epicontinental basin with the Tethys Ocean. Locally, carbonate …

Pendant bioconstructions occur within submerged caves in the Plemmirio Marine Protected
Area in SE Sicily, Italy. These rigid structures, here termed biostalactites, were …

The oldest known Jurassic coral reef is exposed in the Ardèche region of southern France.
This reef site, consisting of at least three reefal bodies, is of early Hettangian age and thus …

The occurrence of neritic microbial carbonates is often related to ecological refuges, where
grazers and other competitors are reduced by environmental conditions, or to post-extinction …

Three sections (Rebro, Lyalintsi and Velinovo) of the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous
carbonate sequences from the Lyubash unit (Srednogorie, Balkanides, SW Bulgaria) have …

The term “reef” has been frequently misused when applied to fossil coral communities. Our
popular but biased view of coral community structure based on the idyllic picture of recent …

Molinges was located on an Upper Jurassic ramp system of low-energy regime that
developed at the southern margin of the French Jura platform. The sedimentary succession …