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Open AccessPalaeoecology of calcified microfossils from the Lower Devonian (Pragian-Emsian) of Sierra Morena (SW Spain)
Lower Devonian (Pragian-Emsian) reefal deposits of Sierra Morena (SW Spain) contain locally abundant calcified cyanobacteria, calcareous algae, and various microfossils including foraminifers. Calcified cyanob...
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Open AccessContrasting reef patterns during the evolution of the carboniferous azrou-khenifra basin (Moroccan Meseta)
Five types of reefs are described from the northern and southern parts of the Azrou-Khenifra Basin generated by the interactions of microbes and coral communities. The type 1 microbial reefs grew in both shall...
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Erratum to: New data on the incertae sedis biota and foraminifera of the mid-Famennian Baelen Member (Late Devonian, eastern Belgium)
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New data on the incertae sedis biota and foraminifera of the mid-Famennian Baelen Member (Late Devonian, eastern Belgium)
The Baelen mud mounds in eastern Belgium represent a local member of the mid-Famennian Souverain-Pré Formation (an important carbonate interval within the Condroz Sandstone Group). The lower part of this membe...
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The cystoporate bryozoan Glyptopora michelinia (Prout, 1860) in the Viséan–Serpukhovian boundary interval of the Montagne Noire (southern France)
The cystoporate bryozoan Glyptopora michelinia (Prout, 1860) was identified from the latest Viséan/earliest Serpukhovian of southern France. This species was known previously from the Mississippian of the USA and...
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Lower Ordovician microfacies and microfossils from Cerro San Pedro (San Pedro de la Cueva, Sonora, Mexico), as a westernmost outcrop of the newly defined Nuia Province
The lowermost carbonate beds of the Cerro San Pedro (San Pedro de la Cueva, Sonora State, Mexico) previously assigned to the Mississippian, belong in fact to the lower Ordovician. The limestone of this success...
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First record of Sakmarian smaller foraminifers from the Sarab section (South Lut Block in Central Iran)
The Early Permian (Sakmarian) in the Dalgan area of South Lut Block in Central Iran is more than 85 m thick and includes thick sequences of conglomerate, shale, quartzarenite, dolomite, sandy limestone, and li...
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Middle Permian calcareous algae and microproblematica (Dalan Formation, Dena Mountain, High Zagros, SW Iran)
Calcareous algae and microproblematica have been studied in the Middle Permian part of the Dalan Formation in Dena Mountain, Zagros, southwest Iran. Murgabian (=Wordian) microfossils are the most diversified. ...
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Timing and progression of the end-Guadalupian crisis in the Fars province (Dalan Formation, Kuh-e Gakhum, Iran) constrained by foraminifers and other carbonate microfossils
The Middle-to-Upper Permian in the Kuh-e Gakhum anticline (southeastern Iran) has rarely been studied due to its structural complexity and the difficult access. Rich Permian fusulinid assemblages varying in ag...
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Large colonial organisms with coordinated growth in oxygenated environments 2.1 Gyr ago
A series of well preserved centimetre-scale fossils in an extended fossiliferous level within black shales near Franceville, in Gabon, West Africa, provides a glimpse of perhaps the earliest form of multicellu...
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Depositional environment and biofacies characterization of the Upper Pennsylvanian–Lower Permian deposits of the San Salvador Patlanoaya section (Puebla, Mexico)
The San Salvador Patlanoaya section (Puebla State of Mexico) has been subdivided into seven informal members labeled A–F. Members C–F have been dated as Missourian to Leonardian (equivalent to Kasimovian to Ku...
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A new Mississippian dasyclad alga (Chlorophyta) from SW Spain: Implications for the reproductive evolution of the dasyclads during the Late Palaeozoic
Analysis of the microflora from the Mississippian deposits of southwest Spain has revealed the presence of a new species: Palaepimastoporella espielensis new gen. new sp. It is assigned to the family Seletonellac...
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A close look at late carboniferous algal mounds: Schulterkofel, Carnic Alps, Austria
During the uppermost Carboniferous and lowermost Permian algal mounds were formed in inner shelf settings of the Carnic Alps (Austria/Italy). A specific mound type, characterized by the dominance of the dasycl...
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Late Serpukhovian (Namurian A) microfacies and carbonate microfossils from the Carboniferous of Nötsch (Austria)
The Carboniferous of Nötsch (Austria), divided into Erlachgraben, Badstub and Nötsch Formations, is composed of a thick sequence of dominantly siliciclastic deepsea sediments. Intercalated marly and silty lime...
