I'm glad Helmut has brought this topic up. We have some mid-Atlantic
trench scleractinians in the Canadian Museum of Nature that are being
studied by a post-doc at McMaster. Her interest in these animals was
piqued by the discovery that some living scleractinians from the Grand
Banks were several thousands of years old. These are now being
studied for evidence related to climate change, etc.
Sorry, no refs. perhaps some lurkers out there will have more info.
Judy Fournier
Can. Mus. Nature (retired)
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