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V.—A Revision of some Carboniferous Corals1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

R. G. Carruthers
R. G. Carruthers
Affiliation:
The Geological Survey.
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More than sixty years have now elapsed since the publication of the classical monograph of MM. Milne-Edwards and Jules Haime, “Les Polypes Fossiles des Terrains Palæozoïques.” It can only be expected that many of the original descriptions of species in that work have for long been in need of amplification and revision. This applies with added force to the corals of the Carboniferous Limestone, in view of the impetus given to the palæontological study of that formation, by the vigorous revival of zonal work witnessed in the last few years. Those species in most urgent need of revision belong to the lower, or Tournaisian division of the Limestone, since their satisfactory determination affords a basis for evolutionary studies on the succeeding faunas, and an attempt is here made to deal with a few of these forms.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 1908 , pp. 20 - 31
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1908

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Communicated by permission of the Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain.

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page 21 note 1 With the exception of Michelin's Caninia cornucopiœ and Caninia cornu-bovis, which, however, also came from Tournai.

page 22 note 1 Zeit. Deut. Geol. Ges., Vol. xxi (1869).Google Scholar

page 24 note 1 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. VII, vol. xviii (1906), p. 362.Google Scholar

page 25 note 1 Plates IV and V will appear in February.

page 30 note 1 Thomson, J., “Corals Carb. Syst. Scot.”: Proc. Phil. Soc. Glasgow, p. 152, pl. vi, figs. 21, 22, etc. (1883).Google Scholar

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