Corals from the Štramberk Carbonate Platform (Tithonian-Berriasian; Czech Republic, Poland, Carpathians): an overview

Abstract

Late Jurassic was a time of widespread development of coral reefs. Most studies concerned with the Late Oxfordian-Early Kimmeridgian carbonate platforms, reefs and corals.

Less is known about the Tithonian and earliest Cretaceous reefs and corals. Corals from the Štramberk Carbonate Platform (Czech Republic, Poland) are the word's most diversified coral fauna of the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary.

The Štramberk Limestone is rich also in other fossils, intensively studied since 19th century (see Vašíček &Skupien, 2004).