Stromatoporoids are common shallow marine hypercalcified sponges in two major episodes
with distinctive skeletal architectures: 1) Palaeozoic: Ordovician to Late Devonian; and 2) …

The Wancennes reef is a giant bioherm 3000 m-large and 300 m-high that developed during
the early Eifelian partitus to costatus conodont zones. The basal banks are formed by an …

Modern scleractinian corals can display high phenotypic plasticity, which reflects an
interplay among various environmental controls, such as sediment input, water …

The matter of photosymbiosis in Paleozoic corals remains unresolved as it is not possible to
directly check for the presence of algal symbionts in fossil corals. However, present-day …

Corallite sizes reflect a continuum in the efficacy of photosymbiosis in colonial reef corals,
with smaller corallite sizes generally associated with higher autotrophy. Using a large …

The middle and upper parts of the Skały Fm, Early to Middle Givetian in age, were
investigated in four sections at Miłoszów Wood in the Łysogóry Region (northern region of …

The southernmost Devonian reefs formed along the north-western margin of Gondwana.
One of the best-preserved reefal palaeoecosystems of this area is found in the Givetian of …

For the first time, a large number of macrofossils (rugose and tabulate corals, chaetetid
sponges and brachiopods) collected from the deposits surrounding a large Middle Devonian …

An exceptionally well-preserved population of numerous tiny, juvenile colonies of the
tabulate coral Favosites goldfussi was discovered in the lower Eifelian of the Ouihlane …

Abstract The North Sea Basin is the most important oil and gas producing area in Europe
and the birthplace of many classic petroleum geological theories. From the perspective of …