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Science 13 August 1971:
Vol. 173. no. 3997, pp. 623 - 625
DOI: 10.1126/science.173.3997.623
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Recent Brachiopod-Coralline Sponge Communities and Their Paleoecological Significance

Jeremy B. C. Jackson 1, Thomas F. Goreau 2, and Willard D. Hartman 3

1 Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
2 Marine Laboratory, University of the West Indies, Discovery Bay, St. Ann, Jamaica, and Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook 11790
3 Department of Biology and Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520

Brachiopods and coralline sponges are the dominant taxa of a series of parallel pantropical communities found in cryptic habitats of Recent coral reefs, where these organisms may cover almost the entire available surface area. It is suggested that the continued survival and success of these and other groups of considerable paleontological importance resulted from their occupation of cryptic reef habitats after competition with more rapidly growing hermatypic corals in the Middle Jurassic when scleractinian reefs first appeared.


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