Tabulata

Auloporida Sokolov, 1947

Order AULOPORIDA

Taxon overview

Order AULOPORIDA, ?Lower Ordovician - Upper Permian. Tube-like corallites grow up next to each other communicating by pore tunnels (Syringoporicae, Fig. 5A) or are reptant and encrusting surfaces with mural pores (Auloporicae, Joon. 5B). Septal spines are present and tabulae may be absent. Syringoporids are abundant in upper-Silurian outcrops in Saaremaa (Lõo and Katri cliffs). Syringopora affabilis has a peculiar symbiosis with stromatoporoid. Syringopora multifaria is more common. Encrusting Aulopora amica is abundant in Katri cliff. 

Selection of related publications
Jeon, J., Vinn, O., Liang, K., Zapalski, M. K., Toom, U., Kershaw, S. 2022. Stromatoporoid-coral/tubeworm intergrowths in the lowermost Silurian Varbola Formation of Estonia: first evidence of competitive interaction. Lethaia 55, 2, 1-13. DOI:10.18261/let.55.2.4
Zapalski, M. K., Vinn, O., Toom, U., Ernst, A., Wilson, M. A. 2022. Bryozoan–cnidarian mutualism triggered a new strategy for greater resource exploitation as early as the Late Silurian. Scientific Reports 12, number: 15556. DOI:10.1038/s41598-022-19955-2
Kershaw, S., Mõtus, M.-A. 2016. Palaeoecology of Corals and Stromatoporoids in an Upper Silurian Biostrome in Estonia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61, 1, 33-50. DOI:10.4202/app.00094.2014
Mõtus, M.-A., Hints, O. (eds) 2007. 10th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera. Excursion B2: Lower Paleozoic geology and corals of Estonia. Excursion Guidebook.
Mõtus, M.-A. 2004. Tabulate corals from the Lower Silurian of Jämtland (Sweden). GFF 126, 4, 339-352. DOI:10.1080/11035890401264339
Tchudinova, I. I. 1986. The composition, system and phylogeny of fossil corals. Order Syringoporida. Transactions of the Paleontological Institute (PIN) , 216, 1-204.
Klaamann, E. 1983. The Tabulate corals of Jaani and Jaagarahu Stages (Wenlockian, Estonia) and their Biozones. Lower Paleozoic paleontology of Baltics and Podolia, pp. 3-40.
Klaamann, E. 1982. Tabulate communities (Late Wenlock and Ludlow, Gotland). Communities and biozones in the Baltic Silurian Communities and biozones in the Baltic Silurian, pp. 35-50.
Klaamann, E. 1979. Tabulate and heliolitid corals. Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning 73, 3, 81-85. Lower Wenlock faunal and floral dynamics - Vattenfallet section, Gotland, pp. 81-85.
Brood, K. 1978. Skeletal structures of Silurian auloporid corals. GFF 100, 1, 53-63. DOI:10.1080/11035897809448560
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Klaamann, E. R. 1971. Tabulate corals of upper coral limestone in Norway. Eesti NSV Teaduste Akadeemia Toimetised. Keemia, Geoloogia / Известия Академии наук Эстонской ССР. Химия. Геология 20, 4, 356-363. DOI:10.3176/chem.geol.1971.4.12
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Stasinska, A. 1967. Tabulata from Norway, Sweden and from the erratic boulders of Poland. Palaeontologia Polonica 18, 1-112.
Klaamann, E. R. 1966. The incommunicate tabulata of Estonia. ENSV TA Geoloogia Instituudi uurimused , 1-97.
Klaamann, E. R. 1962. Upper Silurian Tabulata of Estonia. ENSV TA Geoloogia Instituudi uurimused IX, 25-70.
Klaamann, E. R. 1961. The Wenlockian tabulata and heliolitida of Estonia. ENSV TA Geoloogia Instituudi uurimused VI, 69-112.
Sokolov, B. S. 1955. Tabulâty paleozoâ Evropejskoj časti SSSR. Vvedenie. Obŝie voprosy sistematiki i istorii razvitiâ tabulât (s harakteristikoj morfologičeski blizkih grupp). Trudy Vsesoûznogo Naučno-Issledovatel'skogo Geologo-Razvedočnogo Instituta (VNIGRI) 85, 1-328.