Fossil group
Corals
Corals · Ordovician – Recent
Marine cnidarians — relatives of sea anemones and jellyfish — that secrete a calcium-carbonate skeleton, as solitary cups or branching colonies. Reef-building corals need warm, clear, shallow water, so fossil corals mark ancient tropical shelves.
A broad fossil group rather than a single taxon — the units below record it among their fauna or flora.
Recorded in these units
15- Ali Masjid Formation Late Devonian to Early Carboniferous (early Frasnian to mid-Tournaisian) Paleozoic
- Nowshera Formation Early Devonian Paleozoic
- Pir Sabak Formation Devonian Paleozoic
- Chalt Formation Permo-Carboniferous Paleozoic
- Darkot Group Late Palaeozoic (Upper Carboniferous–Lower Permian) Paleozoic
- Wargal Limestone Middle–Late Permian (Capitanian–Wuchiapingian) Paleozoic
- Bdongo-La Formation Middle Jurassic Mesozoic
- Chiltan Limestone Middle to Late Jurassic (Bathonian-Oxfordian) Mesozoic
- Reshit Formation late Middle Jurassic Mesozoic
- Samana Suk Formation Middle Jurassic (Bajocian-Bathonian) Mesozoic
- Reshun Formation Late Cretaceous Mesozoic
- Jiwani Formation Late Pleistocene (Chibanian; ~0.77-0 Ma) Cenozoic
- Dungan Formation Late Paleocene to Early Eocene Cenozoic
- Lakhra Formation Paleocene Cenozoic
- Shekhan Formation Early Eocene (Ypresian) Cenozoic
Found alongside
28Other fossils recorded in the same units.
AlgaeAlveolina oblongaAlveolina vredenburgiAmmonitesAssilina dandoticaAssilina daviesiAssilina exponensAssilina laminosaBrachiopodsBryozoansCephalopodsConodontsCrinoidsEchinoidsFenestellaForaminiferaFusulinid foraminiferaGastropodsMegalodonMolluscsMollusksNummulitesNummulites atacicusOrbitolites complanatusOstracodsProductid brachiopodsProductidsStromatoporoids