Early Ordovician black corals from China

doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1632

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	Early Ordovician black corals from China
	Balinski, Andrzej ; Sun, Yuanlin
刊名	BULLETIN OF GEOSCIENCES
	2017
关键词	China Ordovician Fenxiang Formation black corals Sinopathes Sterictopathes gen. nov. Sinopathidae fam. nov. ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS HAWAIIAN-ISLANDS ANTIPATHARIA ANTHOZOA CNIDARIA HEXACORALLIA REEFS CONSTRUCTION FAUNA PARK
DOI	10.3140/bull.geosci.1632
英文摘要	Despite the importance of black corals in modern coral faunas and marine ecosystems, they were unknown in the fossil record until the recent discovery of abundant phosphatised remains in the Lower Ordovician Fenxiang Formation in the Three Gorges area (Hubei Province) of South China. The poor fossil record of black corals could he explained by their unmineralized skeleton composed mainly of laminar chitin complexed with the protein antipatharin. Here, we describe three species of black corals from the Fenxiang Formation: Sinopathes reptans Baliiiski, Sun & Dzik, 2012, Sinopathes sp., and Sterictopathes radicatus gen. et sp. nov. A new family Sinopathidae is proposed for the Early Ordovician genera Sinopathes and Sterictopathes. Coral la of both these genera consist of all encrusting basal plate and ascending branches, both covered with long spines. However, whereas in Sinopathes the surface of the skeleton is smooth and all spines are longitudinally striated, in Sterictopathes the spines are smooth, but basally buttressed by radiating, plate -like ridges forming anastomosing network on basal plate and branches. Biotic interactions among studied black corals and other organisms in the form of hioimmuration, encrustation and probable parasite/predatory markings are also described.; National Science Centre, Poland [DEC-2012/07/13/NZ8/02701]; SCI(E); ARTICLE; 1; 1-12; 92
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/476085]
专题	地球与空间科学学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Balinski, Andrzej,Sun, Yuanlin. Early Ordovician black corals from China[J]. BULLETIN OF GEOSCIENCES,2017.
APA	Balinski, Andrzej,&Sun, Yuanlin.(2017).Early Ordovician black corals from China.BULLETIN OF GEOSCIENCES.
MLA	Balinski, Andrzej,et al."Early Ordovician black corals from China".BULLETIN OF GEOSCIENCES (2017).