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Sedimentation
Non-Waulsortian Mississippian Bioherms: A Comparative Analysis
Abstract
The Mississippian was a period of recovery for bioherm communities following the Frasnian-Famennian extinction event, but Mississippian bioherms do not represent the result of a single, “primitive,” evolving “reef” community. The distribution and succession of Mississippian bioherm types was controlled by regional tectonostratigraphic settings and local environments of deposition, not by evolution of a global bioherm community. Bioherm communities did “evolve” during the Mississippian, but independently in isolated geographic areas. Non-Waulsortian bioherms were diverse, but most were dominated by microbial communities and local, or endemic, opportunistic, skeletal framebuilders such as bryozoans, corals, sponges and algae. Few bioherm constructors were cosmopolitan. Each geographic region had a relatively unique history of bioherm development during the Mississippian.
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