Tabulate corals from the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland)
Tabulate corals from the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland)
IP PAS publication — Zapalski, M.K., Król, J.J., Halamski, A.T., Wrzołek, T., Rakociński, M. & Baird, A.H. 2021. Coralliths of tabulate corals from the Devonian of the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland). [Swobodnie leżące, obracane przez prąd wody kolonie korali denkowych z dewonu Gór Świętokrzyskich (Polska)]. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 585: 110745.
The authors described coralliths (unattached coral colonies passively rotated by water movement) constructed by tabulate corals (an extinct group of Palaeozoic anthozoans). They have been found in the Devonian of Jaźwica, Kowala, and Miłoszów in the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland). The majority of coralliths are known from very shallow environments, whereas the material described here is from deeper settings, a rare situation among both Recent and fossil anthozoans. Analogous coralliths are reported from the Wistari Channel (Southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia).
Figure caption: A corallith constructed by the tabulate coral Favosites goldfussi, Miłoszów (Holy Cross Mts., Poland), Middle Devonian, maximum length about 25 mm, collections of the Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Compare fig. 3B [here]
