Environmental reconstruction of a late Burdigalian (Miocene) patch reef in deltaic deposits (East Kalimantan, Indonesia)

Deep in shadows, deep in time: the oldest mesophotic coral ecosystems from the Devonian of the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland)

“…Numerous studies have shown that platy morphology of coralla is photoadaptive (e.g., Graus and Macintyre 1976;Muko et al 2000;Kahng et al 2010) and such a morphology has already been used to establish photosymbiosis in fossil scleractinians (Rosen et al 2002;Martindale et al 2012;Novak et al 2013). This kind of morphology does not occur in azooxanthellate scleractinians (Fricke and Meischner 1985); representatives of the genera Astrangia and Cladangia (Rhizangiidae) can form encrusting coralla (N Santodomingo, pers.…”

A Diverse Patch Reef From Turbid Habitats in the Middle Miocene (East Kalimantan, Indonesia)

“…Therefore, we constrain our direct comparisons to previous studies in Kalimantan region (Moss and Chambers 1999;Wilson and Lokier 2002;Wilson 2005Wilson , 2008Lokier et al 2009;Novak et al 2013). In East Kalimantan, the term patch reef has been applied to modern coral communities characterized as small isolated assemblages, which develop in shallow waters on the delta front, eight kilometers from the mouth of the Berau River (Tomascik et al 1997).…”

“…It is important to note that Wilson's definition implies the use of the term reef in a broad sense due to the ''lack of rigid framework'' of the carbonate structures. Likewise, in the present study, the term patch reef is used in concordance with Wilson (2005), to describe coral carbonates regardless of the lack or presence of rigid frameworks (Moss and Chambers 1999;Wilson and Lokier 2002;Wilson 2008;Lokier et al 2009;Novak et al 2013).…”

“…In the geological record there are numerous examples of coral assemblages developing in turbid-water environments since at least the Late Triassic (Rosen et al 2002) in the Mediterranean (Hayward 1982;Braga et al 1990; Morsilli et al 2011;Pomar et al 2012) and the Caribbean (McNeill et al 2000;Klaus et al 2008). In fact, the fossil record of Southeast Asia, the region that hosts today the most diverse marine ecosystems on Earth (commonly referred to as the Coral Triangle; Bellwood et al 2005;Hoeksema 2007), is rich in well-preserved coral assemblages that mainly developed under high sediment influx (Gerth 1923;Umbgrove 1929;Wilson 2005;Novak et al 2013).…”

Calcitization of aragonitic bryozoans in Cenozoic tropical carbonates from East Kalimantan, Indonesia

“…Early to middle Miocene deltas prograded rapidly eastwards, contributing to the infilling of the Kutai Basin (Moss and Chambers 1999;Hall and Nichols 2002). Within this depositional regime, Miocene carbonates formed as delta-front reefs (Wilson 2005;Santodomingo et al 2015), shelf-edge reefs Novak et al 2013;Novak and Renema 2015), and small carbonate platforms (Wilson et al 2012), along the seaward margin of the Mahakam Delta where they were strongly influenced by siliciclastic input throughout their evolution (Wilson 2005;Lokier et al 2009;Marshall et al 2015). These carbonates have been interpreted as transitional shelf sediments deposited between deltaic and deepmarine facies (Allen and Chambers 1998).…”