ISBN 3-931689-05-0 (whole serial)
The Catalogue of Cretaceous Corals
The serial gives a systematic overview on the Cretaceous corals. Except for additional notes on localities and taxa, the data are (for volume 1 to 3) taken from the literature and possess an objective status. The first volume - the Repertoire of Species - was published in 2000. The second volume was published in late 2002. The third volume was published in 2005.
With more than 1,400 pages, the complete edition forms the ultimate handbook of Cretaceous corals, of which the List of (more than
2,800) Localities is also interesting for palaeontologists who work with other Cretaceous fossils. The last volume includes a
retrieval system for Windows-based computers.
- Repertoire of Species (2000), 135 pp., 24 €
- List of Citations (2002), 784 pp., 100 €
- List of Localities (2005), 366 pp., 50 €
- Systematic Part, 700 pp., > 1000 figs.
Volumes 4 is under preparation
The group of Scleractinian corals (Triassic to Extant) experienced its last systematic revision in 1952 and 1956, respectively. Afterwards followed intensive investigation, so that a further revision is urgently needed to incorporate more data. Approximately since 1980, B.R.Rosen from London was made responsible as an editor of the revised edition of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, part F. In August 2003, during the 9th symposium of the IASFCP (International Association for the Study of Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera) in Graz (Austria) Rosen resigned from this function. An initiative started by Louise Beauvais and Hannes Löser 1993 in Paris to revise the Scleractinia (which was not thought to be a competition to the Treatise) could not unify the about 20 members.
To "save" at least the corals of the Cretaceous period, Hannes Löser planned in 1997 to extend the Catalogue of Cretaceous Corals which was originally envisaged to be only a revision of the Fossilium Catalogus. Whereas the first three volumes are "only" pure compilations of data, the fourth volume will be a systematic and fully illustrated revision on the genus level. The revision is carried out mainly on type material or material from the type locality of the type species of the genera concerned.
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Updated : 08-31-2010.
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