THE FAMENNIAN RUGOSE CORAL ASSEMBLAGES IN NEAR-SHORE FACIES FROM SOUTH CHINA

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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