Bolshoy Balkhan-3 (Cretaceous of Turkmenistan)

Where: Turkmenistan (39.6° N, 54.5° E: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 59.4° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Alikper Formation, Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks

• Lithology described as simple dome-shaped bioherms, constructed of large, massive, and dendroid colonies of corals that have grown directly on one another.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. J. Bugrova. 1990. The facies zonation and scleractinians of the early Hauterivian reef complex of Bolshoy Balkhan. Cretaceous Research 11(3):229-236 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2262: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 30.06.1999, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
"Actinastraea kugusemensis" = Actinastrea
"Actinastraea kugusemensis" = Actinastrea stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Microsolena exigua Koby 1887 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Microphyllia undans Etallon 1859 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Heliocoenia sp. Etallon 1859 stony coral
originally entered as "Heliocoenia sp."