Marine bioconstructions are biodiversity-rich, three-dimensional biogenic structures,
regulating key ecological functions of benthic ecosystems worldwide. Tropical coral reefs …

Stromatolites are abundant in shallow marine sediments deposited before the evolution of
animals, but in the modern ocean they are restricted to locations where the activity of …

Along the Mediterranean Sea shelf, algal reefs made of crustose coralline algae and
Peyssonneliales are known as Coralligenous. It ranks among the most important …

Upper Eocene algal limestones of the Eastern Alpine Foreland in Austria contain three
different types of crustose algal frameworks. These reveal several similarities with the …

The most important reef of the Mediterranean is the Coralligène (Coralligenous= C),
including several types of calcareous algal-invertebrate build-ups growing in normal open …

Coralligenous has a relevant role in submarine landscape formation and demise through
geological times, producing various morphotypes on the seafloor. Several terms are used to …

Some tubular fossils attributable to sabellids and serpulids, and a serpulid operculum are
described for the first time from the Wordian to upper Permian “Pietra di Salomone”,“Rupe di …

Habitat classifications provide guidelines for map** and comparing marine resources
across geographic regions. Calcareous bio-concretions and their associated biota have not …

Sea floor map** along the Apulia continental shelf (Italy) verified the abundance of
autochthonous red algae build-ups, mapped as coralligenous habitats (CHs), in a water …

Coralligenous (C) includes calcareous build-ups of biogenic origin, formed since the
Holocene transgression. Peculiar columnar-shaped C outcrops were documented offshore …