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The Long March of Corals

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Abstract

After providing a brief history of the emergence of Life on the early Earth and of the chemical evolution of the atmosphere and the early ocean, successively are discussed the ways in which were acquired the ability of biomineralisation by marine invertebrates, are described earliest calcifying organisms, cnidarians, corals (Tabulata, Rugosa) and scleractinian corals. Then, the issue of the photosymbiosis acquired by early corals and scleractinians is debated. Finally, a brief history of corals and reef building throughout the Phanerozoic is developed, from the Cambrian to the Pliocene times. Scleractinians probably appeared as soon as the Paleozoic in the form of archaic counterparts (Scleractiniamorpha). These corals did not play a prominent role as reef builders prior to the Upper Jurassic and reached their acme during the Neogene. Bioconstructions were successively built by other calcifying organisms, including calcimicrobes, sponges, non-scleractinian corals, algae, ectoprocts, and bivalves.

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Martin-Garin, B., Montaggioni, L.F. (2023). The Long March of Corals. In: Corals and Reefs . Coral Reefs of the World, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16887-1_4

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