Examples of coral

• There are new chapters on corals, ser pulid worms and nautiloids, three groups left out of the first edition.

• Large, overturned tabulate corals are found in similar facies in the south-eastern quar ry wall.

• Tikal corals are never described as modified, suggesting that they were ritually impor tant in and of themselves, and their ritual function is far from clear.

• Then, the other groups: conodonts, acritarchs, chitinozoa, corals, brachiopods, cephalopods, bivalves, trilobites.

• In contrast, coquina accumulations are common along the upper bedding planes, where they are formed by bivalves, productid brachiopod shells, fenestellid bryozoans, small solitary corals, crinoid stems and blastoids.

• The dominant colonial organisms are corals.

• Finally, on the question of corals, there is no doubt that red and pink corals have been overharvested in many regions of the world.

• Deep-sea trawlers were accused of systematically destroying the corals.