晚泥盆世弗拉期末F-F的生物灭绝事件，导致珊瑚以及许多浅海底栖生物灭绝，几乎整个法门期珊瑚群都处于残存阶段，华南地区目前只在湖南的个别地方发现少量的Smithiphyllum。直到法门期末珊瑚和其它一些造礁底栖生物开始复苏，出现了不少与典型泥盆纪珊瑚存在很大差别的新分子。华南泥盆纪最晚期（Strunian）的珊瑚可划分成上、下两个组合：上部Cystophrentis组合；下部Eocaninophyllum组合。泥盆一石炭纪之交的另一次生物灭绝事件，使新生的泥盆纪最晚期的珊瑚又遭灭绝。

Very few corals are known from the Famennian of the world including South China. A large number of shelly benthos living in the shallow platform of Late Devonian sea were killed by the F-F mass extinction event in the end of Frasnian. Reefs and the characteristic Devonian corals suddenly disappeared. There is only one coral genus Smithiphyllum found from the Hsikuangshan Formation (lower and middle Famennian substages) in Hunan Province,South China. The lower-middle-upper Famennian was the survival interval...

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国家自然科学基金项目(No.40872007,40572004);;国家重点基础研究发展规划项目(No.2006CB806400)资助