Exceptionally well-preserved fossil representatives of Acropora from the Eocene, Oligocene, and Miocene shallow-water deposits exhibit remarkable evolutionary stability of biomineralization patterns despite major geochemical fluctuations: including the transition from greenhouse conditions (Eocene) to icehouse conditions (Oligocene) and from low Mg/Ca "calcitic seas" during the Eocene through rapidly increasing Mg/Ca "aragonite seas" since the Oligocene. Implications for scleractinian coral biomineralization and evolution will be discussed.
Structure, morphogenesis, and evolution of fibrous skeleton in acroporiid scleractinian corals / Stolarski, J.; Bosellini, Francesca; Wallace, C. C.; Neusser, R. D.; Meibom, A.. - STAMPA. - (2015). (Intervento presentato al convegno 13th International Symposium on Biomineralization tenutosi a Granada, Spain nel 16-19 September 2015).
Structure, morphogenesis, and evolution of fibrous skeleton in acroporiid scleractinian corals
BOSELLINI, Francesca;
2015
Abstract
Exceptionally well-preserved fossil representatives of Acropora from the Eocene, Oligocene, and Miocene shallow-water deposits exhibit remarkable evolutionary stability of biomineralization patterns despite major geochemical fluctuations: including the transition from greenhouse conditions (Eocene) to icehouse conditions (Oligocene) and from low Mg/Ca "calcitic seas" during the Eocene through rapidly increasing Mg/Ca "aragonite seas" since the Oligocene. Implications for scleractinian coral biomineralization and evolution will be discussed.
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