Paleoecology of a Pliocene coral reef in Cyprus: Recovery of a marine community from the Messinian Salinity Crisis | Health & Environmental Research Online (HERO)

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7880320

Reference Type

Journal Article

Title

Paleoecology of a Pliocene coral reef in Cyprus: Recovery of a marine community from the Messinian Salinity Crisis

Author(s)

Dornbos, SQ; Wilson, MA

Year

1999

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Journal

Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie. Abhandlungen
ISSN: 0077-7749

Volume

213

Issue

Page Numbers

103-118

Web of Science Id

WOS:000082528200004

Abstract

Paleocological analysis of the reef community shows that, apart from corals, it was dominated by epifaunal molluscs. It represents one of the most diverse fossil communities found on Cyprus following the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC), with 38 identified species of macrofossils and 8 species of foraminifera. When compared to patch reefs on Cyprus formed just prior to the MSG, this Pliocene reef shows both the biological devastation of the event and the quick and complete recovery of the reefal biodiversity.