Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4747467 | Cretaceous Research | 2011 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
A relatively low diversity coral fauna comprising eight zooxanthellate, three azooxanthellate, and one unidentified species is described from a Late Cretaceous rocky shore at Ivö Klack, southern Sweden. All species, except the solitary azooxanthellate Paracyathus? sp., are represented by one or two specimens only, indicating low preservation potential similar to the aragonite-shelled gastropod fauna from the same locality. The fauna comprises one out of two northernmost zooxanthellate forms known and adds important environmental information to the fauna and depositional conditions of the rocky shore at Ivö Klack.
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Authors
Anne Mehlin Sørensen, Søren Floris, Finn Surlyk,