Aragonitic scleractinian corals in the Cretaceous calcitic sea
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Aragonitic scleractinian corals in the Cretaceous calcitic sea
Changes in seawater chemistry have affected the evolution of calcifying marine organisms, including their skeletal polymorph (calcite versus aragonite), which is believed to have been strongly influenced by the Mg/Ca ratio at the time these animals first emerged. However, we show that micrabaciids, a scleractinian coral clade that first appeared in the fossil record of the Cretaceous, when the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Geology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0091-7613,1943-2682
DOI: 10.1130/g38593.1