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Authors	G.J. Boekschoten, M. Borel Best
Title	Fossil and recent shallow water corals from the Atlantic Islands off Western Africa CANCAP-contribution no. 56
Journal	Zoologische Mededelingen
Volume	62
Year	1988
Issue	8
Pages	99-112
ISSN	0024-0672
Keywords	fossil and recent corals; W. Africa; distribution and origin
Abstract	Miocene hermatypic corals are listed from Madeira and Porto Santo. Pleistocene and recent shallow water corals are described from the Cape Verde archipelago. The Miocene fauna was part of the Western Tethyan reef association, which went nearly completely extinct by the development of a cool water current in late Miocene times. The Cape Verde fauna immigrated from the Carribean, presumably by way of a compressed subtropical gyre during a mid Pleistocene glacial phase. The fauna was found in a beach terrace, formerly considered Tertiary, on the island of São Tiago. A lava flow directly above this deposit was radiometrically dated 700.000 ± 200.000 years B.P.
Classification	38.22 ; 42.72
Document type	article
Download paper	http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/149189