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Evolution in corals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2017

J. E. N. Veron
J. E. N. Veron*
Affiliation:
Australian Institute of Marine Science, P M B No 3, Townsville, MC, 4810, Queensland, Australia
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Abstract

This article is a summary of the main points about the evolution of corals put forward in Veron (1995). The main points presented are first, a family tree of the Scleractinia; second, an analysis of genera and their present-day global distributions, age patterns and diversity, including the Cenozoic fossil record; third, coral species and their global distributions, species determination in fossils of Pliocene to Recent age, their geologic history and geographic characteristics; fourth, the theoretical aspects of coral evolution based on surface circulation vicariance, reticulate evolution, and the nature and origin of species. For non-biologists, important concepts and terms are noted in bold and are defined in a glossary at the end of the text.

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The Paleontological Society Papers , Volume 1: Paleobiology and Biology of Corals , October 1996, pp. 7 - 38
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Copyright © 1996 by The Paleontological Society 

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