Terek River, Caucasus: Early Tithonian, Russian Federation

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Cyathophoridae
Cyathophora bourgueti (Defrance 1826)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylina tubulifera (Phillips 1829)
Stylina parvipora Ogilvie 1896
Stylosmilia cf. michelini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Solenocoeniidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Comoseridae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Isastrea minima (Koby 1885)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Thecosmiliidae
Montlivaltia truncata (Defrance 1817)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Calamophylliopsis flabellum (de Blainville 1830)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Andemantastraeidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Diplocteniopsidae
Latiphyllia suevica (Quenstedt 1858)
Astraeidae
Montlivaltia cf. nattheimensis Milaschewitsch 1876
see common names

Geography
Country:Russian Federation State/province:Severnaya Osetiya-Alaniya
Coordinates: 42.9° North, 44.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.7° North, 52.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Tithonian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 6
Key time interval: Early Tithonian
Age range of interval: 149.2 - 145.06 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: mostly from the Baltovskaya Svita (Tithonian)
Lower Tithonian according to Kuznetsov (1993)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:dolomitic lithified "limestone"
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: barrier reef
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 638
Database number:89994
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-06-25 02:35:51 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
30142. N. S. Bendukidze. 1982. Pozdneyurskiye korally rifogennykh otlozheniy Kavkaza i Kryma [Upper Jurassic corals from the reef deposits of the Caucasus and Crimea]. Akademiya Nauk Gruzinskoy SSR, Geologicheskiy Institut imeni A I Dzhanelidze, Trudy 74:1-166 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]