Fossil Corals and Sponges

J. E. Sorauf
The function of dissepiments and marginaria in the Rugosa (Cnidaria, Zoantharia) Seite 11

B.-Y. Bae – R. J. Elias – Y.-H. Jun – D.-J. Lee
Axial increase in some early tabulate corals Seite 31

R. J. Elias – D. R. Porter – G. A. Young
Biometric analysis of corallite size in the colonial rugosan Crenulites Seite 43

J. Hladil
The earliest growth stages of Amphipora Seite 51

A. Le Hérissé – Y. Plusquellec – F. Torneur
Structure and microstructure of Pachypora lamellicornis Lindström, 1873, a tabulate coral from the Silurian of Gotland, Sweden Seite 67

L. D. Nothdurft – G. E. Webb
‘Shingle’ microstructure in scleractinian corals: a possible analogue for lamellar and microlamellar microstructure in Palaeozoic tabulate corals Seite 85

N. A. Buster – J. E. Sorauf
Microarchitectural change in density bands of the scleractinian Montastraea faveolata, Looe Key Reef, Florida Keys, USA: a preliminary report Seite 101

A. Perejón – E. Moreno-Eiris
Ovetian cryptic archaeocyaths, lower Cambrian from Las Ermitas (Córdoba, Spain) Seite 113

A. May
Lower Devonian stromatoporoids of the Sierra Morena (Southern Spain) and their palaeogeographic affinities Seite 139

B. Mistiaen
An older Devonian stromatoporoid from the Ardennes, St. Joseph Formation, Emsian (Vireux, France) Seite 153

B. Mistiaen – I. Méndez-Bedia
Stromatoporoids from the latest reefal episode in the Devonian (late Frasnian) of the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain) Seite 167

V. Grytsenko
Distribution of corals on the Silurian Podolian Shelf Seite 185

S. Schröder – F. Soto
Lower Devonian rugose coral faunas from the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain): phases of development and response to sea-level fluctuations Seite 199

N. Adachi – Y. Ezaki
Microscopic microbialite textures and their components in a Lower Devonian lagoonal facies of the Fukuji Formation, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan Seite 215

E. Poty
The “Avins event”: a remarkable worldwide spread of corals at the end of the Tournaisian (Lower Carboniferous) Seite 231

E. W. Bamber – J. Fedorowski
Remarks on lithostrotionid phylogeny in western North America and western Europe Seite 251

S. Rodríguez – I. D. Somerville
Comparisons of rugose corals from the Upper Visean of SW Spain and Ireland: implications for improved resolution in Late Mississippian coral biostratigraphy Seite 175

P. Cózar – S. Rodríguez – I. D. Somerville
Late Visean rugose coral faunas from South-Eastern Ireland: composition, depositional setting and palaeoecology of Siphonodendron biostromes Seite 307

S. Rodríguez – I. D. Somerville
Rugose coral associations from the late Visean (Carboniferous) of Ireland, Britain and SW Spain Seite 329

M. Berkhli – S. Rodríguez – I. Said
Preliminary data on the coral distribution in the Upper Visean (Mississippian) succession from Adarouch area (NE Central Marocco) Seite 353

M. Aretz – J. Nudds
Palaeoecology of the late Visean (Dinantian) coral-chaetetid biostrome at Little Asby Scar (Cumbria, Great Britain) Seite 365

O. L. Kossovaya
Ecological aspects of upper Carboniferous – lower Permian ‘Cyathaxonia Fauna’ taxonomical diversity (the Urals) Seite 383

Y. Hirata – S. Irie – M. Kato – A. Mimura – Y. Okimura – R. Umeda Y. Ezaki
Carboniferous Rugosa in the Hina Limestone, Akiyoshi Terrane, Southwest Japan: fauna endemic to the Panthalassan Ocean Seite 407

E. Morycowa – J. Szulc
Remarks on Middle Triassic (Anisian) scleractinian corals from the Cracow-Silesian region, Poland (Northern Peri-Tethyan realm) Seite 421

A. Altuna – P. Busquets – V. Etayo – G. Álvarez-Pérez
Five new species of Bartonian (Eocene) corals: Jaca Basin, Pyrenees, Spain Seite 435

G. C. Gunter – S. F. Mitchell – T. A. Stemann
Reef coral diversity in the Late Maastrichtian of Jamaica Seite 455

K. G. Johnson
Reef-coral diversity in the Late Oligocene Antigua Formation and temporal variation of local diversity on Caribbean Cenozoic Reefs Seite 471

S. Inagaki – Y. Iryu – A. Nambu – S. Ozawa – Y. Suzuki
Plio-Pleistocene reef evolution of Kita-daito-jima, Japan Seite 493

J. E. N. Veron
Corals: pointing to a different evolution Seite 507

T. Wrzolek
Perspectives of research on fossil corals and sponges Seite 517

V. N. Zlatarski
The scleractinian species – a holistic approach Seite 523