东濮地区奥陶纪牙形石

本文记叙了东濮地区井下奥陶纪牙形石１６属３２种（１新种、３未定种、４未定属种）,识别出５个牙形石带,１个未建带,自下而上为１．Ｓｃｏｌｏｐｏｄｕｓｆｌｅｘｉｌｉｓ带;２．Ｔａｎｇｓｈａｎｏｄｕｓｔａｎｇｓｈａｎｅｎｓｉｓ带;３．未建带;４．Ｐｌｅｃｔｏｄｉｎａｏｎｙｃｈｏｄｏｎｔａ带;５．Ａｕｒｉｌｏｂｏｄｕｓｓｅｒｒａｔｕｓ带;６．Ｍｉｃｒｏｃｏｅｌｏｄｕｓａｓｙｍｍｅｔｒｉｃｕｓ－Ｂｅｌｏｄｉｎａｃｏｍｐｒｅｓｓａ带。     

吉林浑江地区早奥陶世亮甲山组的大型短粗壳内角石类

对产自吉林浑江大阳贫早奥陶世亮甲山组的大型粗壳内角石类进行系统进行,共描述２科３属３７种和１个科属未定标本,其中１新属、３新种和２未定种。首次报道Ｐｉｌｏｃｅｒａｔｉｄａｅ科分子（Ｐａｒａｃａｓｓｉｎｏｃｅｒａｓ ｄａｙａｎｇｃｈａｅｎｓｅ ｇｅｎ．ｅｔ ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．）在东亚的首次发现。提出角石类内体管构造的４个类型。详细讨论Ｍａｎｃｈｕｒｏｃｅｒａｓ和Ｍａｎｃｈｕｒｃｅｒａｉｄａｅ科的地理分布     

潜叶蜂族研究（膜翅目：叶蜂科）

本文记述中国潜叶蜂Ｆｅｎｕｓｉｎｉ６属８种，其中包括２新属６新种及４新组合种：大眼闻潜叶蜂Ｚｈｅｎｇｉｎａ ｍｅｇｏｍｍａ ｇｅｎ．ｅｔ ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ。，吕氏华潜叶蜂Ｓｉｎｏｆｅｎｕｓａ ｌｕｉ ｇｅｎ．ｅｔ ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．，沟缝脊潜叶蜂Ｐａｒｎａ ｄｉｓｔｉｎｃｔａ ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．，黄首原潜叶蜂Ｐｒｏｆｅｎｕｓａ ｘａｎｔｈｏｃｅｐｈａｌａ ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．，Ｑｉ树雅潜叶蜂Ａｎａｆｅｎｕｓａ ａｃ     

中国叉木蛾属Metathrinca研究及三新种记述（鳞翅目：木蛾科）

记述中国叉木蛾属３新种：银叉木蛾Ｍｅｔａｔｈｒｉｎｃａ ａｒｇｅｎｔｅａ,ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．,佛坪叉木蛾Ｍｅｔａｔｈｒｉｎｃａ ｆｏｐｉｎｇｅｎｓｉｓ,ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．和梅花山叉木蛾Ｍｅｔａｔｈｒｉｎｃａ ｍｅｉｈｕａｓｈａｎａ,ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．,绘出了雌雄外生殖器特征图,并提供了中国已知种检索素。模式标本保存在南开大学生物系。     

云南叉Chi科五新种：Chi目：Chi亚目

本文描述云南省叉Ｃｈｉ科五新种：其中劳Ｃｈｉ属ＬｏｂｏｃａｅｃｉｌｉｕｓＬｅｅｅｔＴｈｏｒｎｔｏｎ１种;四裂劳ＣｈｉＬ．ｑｕａｄｒｉｐａｒｔｉｔｕｓｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．蛇Ｃｈｉ属ＯｐｈｉｄｏｄｐｅｏｎａＥｎｄｅｒｌｅｉｎ１种;波纹蛇ＣｈｉＯ．ｆｕｃｔｏｓａｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．,异Ｃｈｉ属ＨｅｔｅｒｏｃａｅｃｉｌｉｕｓＬｅｅａｎｄＴｈｏｒｎｔｏｎ３种;八斑异ＣｈｉＨ．ｏｃｔｏｍａｃｕｌａｔｕｓｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．,景     

横断山地区的伏绕眼果蝇亚属及三新种(双翅目:果蝇科)

本文记述分布在中国横断山地区绕眼果蝇属伏绕眼果蝇亚属［Ａｍｉｏｔａ（Ｐｈｏｒｔｉｃａ）］的１１个物种，其中包括３个新种：不对称绕眼果蝇Ａ．（Ｐ．）ａｃｏｎｇｒｕｅｎｓｓｐ．ｎ．、突绕眼果蝇Ａ．（Ｐ．）ｐｒｏｔｒｕｓａｓｐ．ｎ．、韩氏绕眼果蝇Ａ．（Ｐ．）ｈａｎｉｓｐ．ｎ．。     

云南叉科五新种(目:亚目)

本文描述云南省叉科（Ｐｓｅｕｄｏｃａｅｃｉｌｉｉｄａｅ）五新种：其中劳属ＬｏｂｏｃａｅｃｉｌｉｕｓＬｅｅｅｔＴｈｏｒｎｔｏｎ１种;四裂劳Ｌ．ｑｕａｄｒｉｐａｒｔｉｔｕｓｓｐ．ｎｏｖ,蛇属Ｏｐｈｉｄｏｄｐｅｏｍａ　Ｅｎｄｅｒｌｅｉｎ１种;波纹蛇Ｏ．Ｆｌｕｃｔｏｓａ　ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ,异属ＨｅｔｅｒｏｃａｅｃｉｌｉｕｓＬｅｅａｎｄＴｈｏｒｎｔｏｎ３种;八斑异Ｈ．ｏｃｔｏｍａｃｕｌａｔｕｓｓｐ．ｎｏｖ,景洪异Ｈ．Ｊｉｎｇｈｏｎｇｉｃｕｓ　ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ,乳突异Ｈ．ｐａｐｉｌｌａｔｕｓｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．。     

白垩纪Penaphis属(同翅目斑蚜科)及协同进化关系

Ｐｅｎａｐｈｉｓ属创立后，已记述２种：Ｐ．ｃｉｒｃａ，Ｐ．ｗｏｏｌａｒｄｉ，现又建立一新种Ｐ．ｎａｎ－ｌｉｇｅｚｈｕａｎｇｅｎｓｉｓｓｐ．ｎｏｖ，对此３种之间的区别和生存时期作了重新讨论；另外，根据近代蚜类生物学特征研究，讨论了这个属与寄主植物Ａｒａｕｃａｒｉｔｅｓ属间的协同进化关系。此外，还描述一新属Ｄａｔａｉｐｈｉｓ。     

中国梨室蜂科新种记述附已种族中检索素

本文记述中国梨室蜂科３新种，陕西三节梨室Ｒｕｎａｒｉａ ｓｈａｎｘｉｎｉｃａ Ｗｅｉ，ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．；湖南三节梨室蜂Ｒｕｎａｒｉａ ｈｕｎａｎｎｉｃａＷｅｉ，ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．刻盾三节梨室蜂Ｒｕｎａｒｉａ ｐｕｎｔａｔａＷｅｉ，ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．。并确定１个属级新异名；Ｒｕｎａｒｉａ Ｍａｌａｉｓｅ１９３１＝ＢｏｈｅａＭａａ １９４４ｓｙｎ．ｎｏｖ．和１个新组合；Ｒｕｎａｒｉａ ａｂｒｕｐｔａ（ｍａａ），     

广西来宾中二叠世的珊瑚群

系统研究了广西来宾地区中二叠世的珊瑚１９属５９种（包括２１新种）,自下而上建立了３个珊瑚化石组合,即栖霞组的１．Ｗｅｎｔｚｅｌｏｐｈｙｌｌｕｍ ｍｅｇｎｉｃｌｌｕｍｅｌｌｕｓ－Ｃｙｓｔｏｍｉｃｈｅｌｉｎｉａ ｒｅｇｕｌａｒｉｓ－Ａｋａｇｏｐｈｙｌｌｕｍ ｍｕｌｔｉｔａｂｕｌａｔｕｍ珊瑚组合,２．Ｈａｙａｓａｋａｉａ ｇｕａｎｇｘｉｅｎｓｉｓ－Ｐｏｌｙｔｈｅｃａｌｉｓ ｓｐｉｎｏｔｈｅｃａ珊瑚组合及     

广西、贵州和川东二叠纪生物礁的钙藻化石及其古生态环境

广西,贵州和川东二叠纪礁相岩石和礁后相岩层内获得了红藻Solenoporella,Gymnocodium,Permocalcu-lus;绿藻Anthracoporella,Mizzia以及显微疑难藻类化石Pseudovermiporella,Tubiphytes等,除了广西隆林有中二叠世茅口期藻类化石外,其它均属于晚二叠世乐平世的分子,这些藻类植物一般生活于热带和亚热带,正常盐度的浅海水内,其水深不大于30m,川东,鄂西晚二叠世礁属于浅水海绵礁,而非深水礁。     

中国南方二叠纪海绵礁的成礁模式

广泛发育于我国南方碳酸盐岩台地区的二叠纪生物礁,其中绝大多数属于海绵生物礁。从该地区二叠纪海绵生物礁的内部成礁因素分析,即从主要造礁生物－钙质海绵和钙质藻类等的生物学和生态学特征、埋藏和保存特点等方面进行分析,提出了华南二叠纪海绵生物礁主要是由于其主要造礁生物钙质海绵和钙质藻类独特的生物学特征、生态学特征以及它们的共同作用所形成的。此模式与其它地质历史时期生物礁的成礁模式明显不同。     

Upper Permian coral reef and colonial rugose corals in northwest Hunan, South China

Summary The roles of Permian colonial corals in forming organic reefs have not been adequately assessed, although they are common fossils in the Permian strata. It is now known that colonial corals were important contributors to reef framework during the middle and late Permian such as those in South China, northeast Japan, Oman and Thailand. A coral reef occurs in Kanjia-ping, Cili County, Hunan, South China. It is formed by erect and unscathed colonies ofWaagenophyllum growing on top of one anotherin situ to form a baffle and framework. Paleontological data of the Cili coral reef indicates a middle to late Changhsing age (Late Permian), corresponding to thePalaeofusulina zone. The coral reef exposure extends along the inner platform margin striking in E-S direction for nearly 4 km laterally and generally 35 to 57 m thick. The Cili coral reef exhibits a lateral differentiation into three main reef facies; reef core facies, fore-reef facies, and marginal slope facies. The major reef-core facies is well exposed in Shenxian-wan and Guanyin-an sections where it rests on the marginal slope facies. Colonial corals are dispersed and preserved in non-living position easward. Sponges become major stabilizing organisms in the eastern part of Changhsing limestone outcrop in Kanjia-ping, but no read sponge reefs were formed. Coral reefs at Cili County in Human are different distinctly from calcisponge reefs in South China in their palaeogeography, lithofacies development, organic constitutuents, palaeoecology and diagenesis. The Cili coral reef also shows differences in age, depositional facies association, reef organisms and diagenesis from coral reefs in South Kitakami of Japan, Khorat Plateau of Thailand, and Saih Hatat of Oman. Although some sponge reefs and mounds can reach up to the unconformable Permian/Triassic boundary, coral reef at Kanjia-ping, Cili County, is the latest Permian reef known. This reef appears to had been formed in a palaeoenvironment that is different from that of the sponge reefs and provides an example of new and unique Permian reef type in South China, and could help us to: 1) understand the significance of colonial corals in Permian carbonate buildups; 2) evaluate the importance of coral community evolution prior to the collapse of reef ecosystems at the Permian/Triassic boundary; 3) better understand the effects of the biotic extinction events in Palaeotethys realm; 4) look for environmental factors that may have controlled reefs through time and space, and 5) provide valuable data for the study of Permian palaeoclimate and global evolutionary changes of Permian reefs and reef community.     

海洋生物礁类型、生态功能及其生态修复

海洋生物礁是由具有造礁能力的海洋生物聚集而成的一种三维礁体结构,其形成改变了海底地貌、增加了不同尺度上的地形复杂性,为其他海洋生物提供了栖息地并维持了生物多样性。近年来,由于自然因素和人为因素影响,海洋生物礁受到了严重威胁,已成为海洋生态保护和修复领域的重要研究对象。综述了海洋生物礁的类型、生态功能及其生态修复的研究进展。根据形成海洋生物礁的优势造礁生物种类,将海洋生物礁分为海藻礁、海绵礁、刺胞动物礁、贝类礁和多毛类礁,其优势造礁生物分别是珊瑚藻和仙掌藻、钙质海绵和硅质海绵、造礁珊瑚、牡蛎、龙介虫。目前国内对海洋生物礁的全面了解相对较少,主要集中在珊瑚礁和牡蛎礁。海洋生物礁的生态功能主要有海岸防护、提供栖息地、净化水体、固碳作用和能量耦合等。全球变暖和海洋酸化等全球气候变化以及海洋污染、破坏性渔业捕捞、海岸工程、水产养殖和敌害生物等自然和人为因素对海洋生物礁构成了严重威胁。海洋生物礁的生态修复方法分为两类：在退化生物礁区投放造礁生物逐渐成礁,投放人工礁体补充造礁生物逐渐成礁。针对海洋生物礁保护和修复的需要,提出下一步应加强海洋造礁生物生态特征、海洋造礁生物种群丧失因素和海洋生物礁保护与...     

The Cassian patch reefs (lower Carnian,southern Alps)

The fauna of the upper Cassian Formation is composed mainly of reef-building and reef-dwelling organisms which occur as reeeposited material in basinal sediments, but have not been found as original reef bodies. Such bodies have now been discovered in the uppermost Cassian Formation of the central Dolomites from the Sella Group in the west to the Monti Cadini in the east. Generally they are small-scale patch reefs, not exceeding a few metres in thickness and lateral extent, which are intercalated in well-bedded detrital and micritic limestones. locally, larger biostromes spread out from the margins of the Cassian Dolomite buildups. Four types of faunal communities have been encountered in these reefs:

1. The thrombolite-calcareous algae community, composed of small patchy cryptalgal structures binding poorly sorted debris and associated with other Cyanophyta, sessile formainifera and scattered calcareous sponges and corals. This type is the most common within the calcareous and marly-tuffaceous facies of the Cassian Formation.
2. The calcareous sponge-coral community, composed mostly of calcareous sponges (stromatoporoids, some pharetronids) and, to a lesser extent, colonial corals and thrombolites. This community corre-sponds well to the Cassian reef fauna, best known from erratic blocks at Alpe di Specie, but has been found in situ only at one locality.
3. The Spongiomorpha-Solenopora community, associated with scattered calcareous sponges and colonial corals, forming a thin biostrome at one locality.
4. Coral communities, composed predominantly of colonial Scleractinia; found only in small or stratigraphically illdefined outcrops and in erratic blocks.

The Cassian patch reefs and biostromes mark the end of a basinal evolution which began in the Lower Ladinian, and the onset of newly expanding carbonate buildups of Cassian Dolomite. These buildups and the sponge-coral patch reefs might have been the source for the allochthonous reef fauna of the Cassian Formation which interfingers with both shallow water environments.     

Carboniferous reef succession of the Panthalassan open-ocean setting: example from Omi Limestone, central Japan

Summary The Carboniferous-Permian (Visean-Midian) Omi Limestone in the Akiyoshi Terrane, central Japan is a large carbonate unit developed on a seamount in the Panthalassa Ocean. As the seamount subsided during Carboniferous and Permian time, the carbonate deposition at the top of a seamount was almost continous. Terrigenous siliciclastic sediments are absent, because the seamount was situated in an open-ocean setting. The lower part of this seamount-type limestone records a nearly continuous Carboniferous reef succession. Sedimentary facies in the Carboniferous part of the Omi Limestone are generally highly diverse, but their diversity varies in each age. The Upper Carboniferous part consists of highly diversified facies including fore reef, reef front, reef crest, sand shoal, and lagoon facies, while a simple facies assemblage, composed only of fore reef, reef front, and sand shoal facies, occurs in the Lower Carboniferous. The Carboniferous reef succession consists of four phases characterized, in ascending order, by the coralbryozoan-crinoid community, problematic skeletal organism-microencruster community, chaetetid-microencruster community, and calcareous algal community. The first phase, comprising the coral-bryozoan-crinoid community, occurs in theEndothyra spp. Zone to theEostaffella kanmerai Zone (Visean to Serpukhovian). This community acted only as sediment-bafflers and/or contributors. The second phase, represented by the problematic skeletal organism-microencruster community, is developed in theMillerella sp. Zone to theAkiyoshiella ozawai Zone (Bashkirian to lowermost Moscovian), and the third phase, comprising the chaetetid-microencruster community, occurs in the overlyingFusulinella biconica Zone (Lower Moscovian). These two communities are characterized by highly diversified reef-building organisms that had the ability to build rigid frameworks. Calcareous algae and incertae sedis such asHikorocodium, solenoporaceans and phylloid algae characterize the fourth phase, which occurs in theBeedeina sp. Zone (Upper Moscovian). The changes of the reef communities were sucessive for a long period of more than 40 m.y., and each community was distributed in various environments. In addition, the continuous subsidence of the isolated seamount resulted in environmental stability. These properties indicate that this succession represents the biotic evolution of reef-building organisms. The problematic skeletal organism-microencruster community and chaetetid-microencruster community of the Late Carboniferous formed wave-resistant and rigid frameworks along with abundant submarine cements. The growth of these reef frameworks resulted in the formation of highly diversified sedimentary facies comparable to those of a modern reef complex. Such reefs are also recognized in the seamount-type Akiyoshi Limestone, but rare on Carboniferous Pangean shelves. Therefore, the formation of these types of reefs appear to be characteristic of open-ocean seamount settings, which differed from epicontinental shelf settings in having no siliciclastic input, being exposed to relatively strong openocean waves and swells, and probably more environmental stability resulting from the relatively continuous subsidence of the seamount.     

Ramp morphology controlling the facies differentiation of a Late Ordovician reef complex at Bachu,Tarim Block,NW China

A carbonate ramp in the shallow‐marine northwestern part of the Central Tarim Uplift, Bachu, NW China, exhibits an extraordinary Late Ordovician reef complex along the Lianglitag Mountains, exposed for a distance of about 25 km. Seven localities within the ‘Middle Red Limestone’ of the Upper Member of the Lianglitag Formation (Katian, Late Ordovician) illustrated the changes in biofacies and lithofacies: northern, seaward‐directed patch reefs are replaced towards the south by coeval grain banks. The patch reef units are dominated by microbial and calcareous algal components. The reefs at the northernmost locality are knoll‐shaped, kalyptra‐shaped or irregularly shaped with sizes of individual reefs increasing from about 2 m in height and diameter. Stratigraphically upward, reefs notably expand to larger structures by several mounds coalescing; they are generally about 10 m thick and tens of metres in lateral extent. The maximum thickness of the main patch reef is more than 30 m, and its diameter is around 100 m. The reefal units turn into biostromes with gentler relief southward and still further south grade into banks composed of peloids and coated grains. The southernmost locality is still a shallow‐water bank, and the coastline is not documented in the study area. The present evidence indicates that the Late Ordovician palaeo‐oceanography provided a number of environments for the optimal growth of carbonate build‐ups; microbial‐calcareous algal communities could thrive in areas where the innovative metazoan reef frameworks consisting of corals and stromatoporoids did not play a significant role. The ramp morphology, especially changes in water depth, controlled the configuration of the reef complex.     

Anisian (middle triassic) buildups of the Northern Dolomites (Italy): The recovery of reef communities after the permian/triassic crisis

Summary After the end-Permian crisis and a global ‘reef gap’ in the early Triassic, reefs appeared again during the early Middle Triassic. Records of Anisian reefs are rare in the Tethys as well as in non-Tethyan regions. Most Anisian reefs are known from the western part of the Tethys but there are only very few studies focused on biota, facies types and the paleogeographical situation of these reefs. From the eastern part of the Tethys, Anisian reefs, reefal buildups or potential reef-building organisms have been reported from different regions of southern China. Most of the Anisian reefs known from western and central Europe as well as from southern China seem to be of middle and late Pelsonian age. The study area is situated in the northern Dolomites (South Tyrol, Italy) southeast of Bruneck (Brunico). It comprises the area between Olang (Valdaora) and Prags (Braies). The study is based on detailed investigations of the regional geology, stratigraphy and lithofacies (R. Zühlke, T. Bechst?dt) as well as on a comprehensive inventory of Anisian reef organisms (B. Senowbari-Daryan, E. Flügel). These data are used in the discussion of the controls on the recovery of reefs during the early Middle Triassic. Most late Anisian reef carbonates studied are represented by allochthonous talus reef blocks of cubicmeter size. Small biostromal autochthonous mounds are extremely rare (Piz da Peres). The reef mounds as well as most of the reef blocks occur within the middle to late Pelsonian Recoaro Formation. They were formed on the middle reaches of carbonate ramps in subtidal depths, slightly above the storm wave base with only moderate water energy. Most lithotypes observed in the reef blocks correspond to sponge and/or algal bafflestones. Low-growing sessile organisms (Olangocoelia (sponge, alga?), sphinctozoan sponges, bryozoans, soleno-poracean algae, corals) and encrusting epibionts (sponges, porostromate algae, cyanophycean crusts, foraminifera, worms, microproblematica) created low cm-sized biogenic structures (bioconstructions) which baffled and bound sediment. Organic framework was only of minor importance; it is restricted to theOlangocoelia lithotype. Framework porosity was small in these reef mounds. Submarine carbonate cements, therefore, are only of minor importance s compared with Permian or Ladinian reefs. The relatively high number of lithotypes encountered in the reef blocks indicates a high biofacies diversity. Regarding the relative frequency, the diverse biota consist in descending order ofOlangocoelia, sponges (sphinctozoans, inozoans, siliceous sponges), bryozoans, porostromate algae and worm tubes. The sphinctozoans are characterized by small, mostly incrusting forms. The numerical diversity (species richness) is low compared with late Permian or Ladinian and late Triassic sphinctozoan faunas occurring within reefs. Following the sponges, monospecific bryozoans (Reptonoditrypa cautica Sch?fer & Fois) are the most common organisms in the reef limestones. Porostromate algae were restricted to areas within the bioconstructions not inhabited by sponges. The low-diverse corals had no importance in the construction of an organic framework. Surprisingly, microbial crusts are rare or even lacking in the investigated Anisian bioconstructions. This is in contrast to late Permian and Ladinian as well as Carnian reefs which are characterized by the abundance of specific organic crusts. The same comes true for‘Tubiphytes’ which is a common constituent in Permian, Ladinian and Carnian reef carbonates but is very rare in the Anisian of the Olang Dolomites. Instead of‘Tubiphytes’ different kinds of worm tubes (spirorbid tubes, Mg-calcitic tubes and agglutinated tubes) were of importance as epifaunal elements. Macrobial encrustations consisting of characteristic successions of sponges, bryozoans, algae, worm tubes and microproblematica seem to be of greater quantitative importance than in Ladinian reefs. Destruction of organic skeletons (predominantly of bryozoans) by macroborers (cirripedia?) is a common feature. The Anisian reef organisms are distinctly different from late Permian and from most Ladinian reef-builders. No Permian Lazarus taxa have been found. New taxa: Sphinctozoan sponges—Celyphia? minima n.sp.,Thaumastocoelia dolomitica n. sp.,Deningeria tenuireticulata n. sp.,Deningeria crassireticulata n. sp.,Anisothalamia minima n.g. n.sp., Inozoan sponges-Meandrostia triassica n.sp. Microproblematica-Anisocellula fecunda n.g. n.sp., Porostromate alga-Brandneria dolomitica n.g. n.sp. Most of our data are in agreement with the model described byFois & Gaetani (1984) for the recovery of reef-building communities during the Ansian but the biotic diversity seems to be considerably higher than previously assumed. Anisian deposition and the formation of the reef mounds within the Pelsonian Recoaro Formation of the Dolomites were controlled by the combined effects of synsedimentary tectonics and eustatic changes in sea-level. During several time intervals, especially the early Anisian (northern and western Dolomites: tectonic uplift), the early Pelsonian (eastern Dolomites: drowning) and the late Illyrian (wide parts of the Dolomites: uplift and drowning), the sedimentation was predominantly controlled by regionally different tectonic subsidence rates. The amount of terrigenous clastic input associated with synsedimentary tectonics (tectonic uplift of hinterlands) had a major influence on carbonate deposition and reef development. The re-appearance of reef environments in the Olang Dolomites was controlled by a combination of regional and global factors (paleogeographic situation: development of carbonate ramps; decreasing subsidence of horst blocks; reduced terrigenous input; moderate rise in sea-level).     

Cavity-dwelling organisms in Lower Cambrian patch reefs from southern Labrador

An intact and well-preserved biota of cavity-dwelling organisms (coelobionts) of early Cambrian age is found within growth-framework cavities in archaeocyathid patch reefs of the lower Forteau Formation (upper Bonnia-Olenellus Zone) of southern Labrador. The biota was diverse, and consisted of encrusting and vagrant organisms. Renalcis , a Renalcis-like form, Epiphyton, Girvanella , and Serligia , all lived attached to walls and roofs of the cavities; other attached forms were Bija, Archaeotrypa , and two types of Wetheredella , an agglutinated foraminifer. Other organisms, including trilobites, probable calcareous ostracodes, brachiopods, echinoderms, and worms, as well as fungi, are also found preserved within the cavities. The structure of the coelobiontic community is surprisingly modern; it indicates that as early as the Lower Cambrian coelobiontic organisms were well-established in reefs, and were an important part of the reef community as a whole.