Distribution and Diversity of Carboniferous and Permian Colonial Rugose Coral Faunas in Western North America: Clues for Placement of Allochthonous Terranes

• Published in: Geosciences
• Main Author: Calvin H. Stevens
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Molecular Diversity Preservation International 2012
• Subjects: Carboniferous; Permian; colonial rugose corals; western North America; allochthonous terranes; Arctic; Stikine; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences2020042

Colonial rugose corals are common in western cratonal North America and in some of the allochthonous terranes, now amalgamated against its western margin. Throughout the Late Paleozoic, the coral faunas in these two different settings were significantly different. Comparisons of these faunas suggest...