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The earliest growth stages of amphiporids and archaeocyaths - a comparison
Hladil, Jindřich
The initial growth stages of amphiporids and archaeocyaths are mutually similar to identical. They both consist of (1) rudimentary bottom disc (covered by small tubercles or septum-like bulges), (2) first chamber, (3) smooth first tube and (4) an interval with relatively rapid metamorphosis to complex adult morphologies. Probably no sponges can produce such an earliest skeletal formation that consists of the first chamber and tube, both resembling an external wall, because the typical sponge gemmules usually produce a number of cells that expand laterally very fast, forming a soft network, and it is a very different process. The great degree of similarity between the earliest growth stages of amphiporids and archaeocyaths suggests that there was a sharply separated group of "archaeocyathid-amphiporid" organisms (working name "Amphicyathida"), which was different from other corals, sponges or stromatoporoids.
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Report on research in the San Salvador Island, Bahamas
Bosák, Pavel ; Hladil, Jindřich ; Slavík, Ladislav ; Melka, Karel ; Venhodová, Daniela ; Chadima, Martin ; Hercman, H. ; Nowicki, T.
Contact of two cycles at shallow carbonate platform shows traces of karstification, formation of soils and important changes of geochemistry (U, Th, K, Fe) and magnetic susceptibility.
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