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Microsolenid corals as rock-formers in the Corallian (Upper Jurassic) rocks of England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

O. E. Ali
O. E. Ali
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan
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Abstract

Summary. Microsolena thurmanni Koby and M. foliosa Roniewicz (Scleractinia) are important rock-formers in the Upper Oxfordian Stage of Upware and, to a lesser extent, Yorkshire.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 120 , Issue 4 , July 1983 , pp. 375 - 380
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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