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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Phosphatic stromatoporoid sponges formed reefs ~480 Mya.

Juwan Jeon, Mar Simonet Roda, Zhong-Yang Chen, Cui Luo, Stephen Kershaw, Daeyeong Kim, Jun-Ye Ma, Jeong-Hyun Lee, Yuan-Dong Zhang

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  3. Preservation bias obscures gradual Ordovician reef evolution.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Juwan JeonDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-4827-306X
Mar Simonet RodaResearch Institute of Natural Sciences, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-2888-8617
Zhong-Yang ChenState Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0002-8102-2222
Cui LuoState Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0001-7513-3172
Stephen KershawDepartment of Life Sciences, Brunel University, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-1099-9076
Daeyeong KimDivision of Glacier & Earth Sciences, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon 21990, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-4444-7851
Jun-Ye MaState Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0002-0798-0529
Jeong-Hyun LeeResearch Institute of Natural Sciences, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-9361-1502
Yuan-Dong ZhangState Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0003-1347-6270

Funding

Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) PE24050MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 41921002MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 42030510National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) 2021R1A2C1009687National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) 2022R1I1A1A01064086National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) 2023K2A9A2A06058962National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) RS-2023-00209495National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) RS-2024-00462466
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stromatoporoid sponges were important reef-builders during the middle Paleozoic, yet their early history and integration into reef ecosystems remain poorly understood. Here, we report

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Coral ReefsFossilsPoriferaAnimalsBiological EvolutionBiomineralizationCalcium CarbonateCalcium PhosphatesChinaPhylogenySilicon DioxideCalcium CarbonateCalcium PhosphatesSilicon DioxideGreat Ordovician Biodiversification Eventphosphatic skeletonreefspongestromatoporoid

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PMCPMC12012458

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