Also known as Reef 4318
Where: Russian Federation (44.3° N, 40.2° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 33.7° N, 49.9° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Gerpigem Formation, Late/Upper Callovian to Late/Upper Callovian (165.3 - 152.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks and rudstone
•These grade upwards into massive reef facies that consist of coral-sponge rudstones in the lower part and platy coral reef limestones in the upper part. However, the reefs do not show mound or domal morphologies, but comprise thick biostromes
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: L. Guo, S. J. Vincent, and V. Lavrishchev. 2011. Upper Jurassic Reefs from the Russian Western Caucasus: Implications for the Eastern Black Sea. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 20:629-653 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 213016: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 24.08.2020
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Sowerbyceras cf. tortisulcatum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite | |
Hecticoceras cf. pompeckyi ammonite | |
"Pachyplanulites subevolutus" = Kranaosphinctes (Pachyplanulites), "Arisphinctes ex gr. plicatilis" = Perisphinctes (Liosphinctes) plicatilis
"Pachyplanulites subevolutus" = Kranaosphinctes (Pachyplanulites) ammonite
"Arisphinctes ex gr. plicatilis" = Perisphinctes (Liosphinctes) plicatilis Sowerby 1817 ammonite | |
Kosmoceras transitorius ammonite |