Main non-scleritic skeletal component

ID: 619

Class: Biomechanical

Description:

The CaCO3 polymorph found in the skeleton, without considering sclerites

Standards:

• Category (cat) default

Methodologies:

• Atomic absorption spectroscopy
• Derived from textual description
• Electron probe microanalizer
• Species-specific value inherited from family level
• X-radiography (densitometer)

Editor: Daniel Gomez Gras (contact)

Observations

Gorgonia flabellum

• 258688

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  amorphous carbonate hydroxiapatite (cat)

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Gorgonia mariae

• 258689

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  amorphous carbonate hydroxiapatite (cat)

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Gorgonia ventalina

• 259223

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  Mg Calcite (cat)

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• 259135

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  Mg Calcite (cat)

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• 258687

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  amorphous carbonate hydroxiapatite (cat)

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Ifalukella yanii

• 261349

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  aragonite (cat)

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• 258712

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  aragonite (cat)

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Keroeides pallida

• 258678

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  high Mg Calcite (cat)

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Leptogorgia barbadensis

• 258710

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  high Mg Calcite (cat)

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Leptogorgia cardinalis

• 259220

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  Mg Calcite (cat)

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• 259130

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  Mg Calcite (cat)

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• 258690

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  amorphous carbonate hydroxiapatite (cat)

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Leptogorgia gilchristi

• 258691

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  amorphous carbonate hydroxiapatite (cat)

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Leptogorgia setacea

• 258694

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  amorphous carbonate hydroxiapatite (cat)

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Leptogorgia stheno

• 258695

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  amorphous carbonate hydroxiapatite (cat)

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Leptogorgia styx

• 258696

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  amorphous carbonate hydroxiapatite (cat)

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Leptogorgia viminalis

• 258699

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  amorphous carbonate hydroxiapatite (cat)

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Leptogorgia virgulata

• 258698

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  amorphous carbonate hydroxiapatite (cat)

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• 259132

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  Mg Calcite (cat)

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Muricea atlantica

• 259221

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  Mg Calcite (cat)

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Muricea muricata

• 259230

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  Mg Calcite (cat)

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Muriceopsis flavida

• 259139

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  Mg Calcite (cat)

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• 259227

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  Mg Calcite (cat)

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Muriceopsis tuberculata

• 258721

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  high Mg Calcite (cat)

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Pacifigorgia cribrum

• 258697

  Main non-scleritic skeletal component

  amorphous carbonate hydroxiapatite (cat)

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