Terek River, Caucasus: Early Tithonian, Russian Federation
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Cyathophoridae
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Cyathophora bourgueti
(Defrance 1826)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Stylinidae
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Stylina tubulifera
(Phillips 1829)
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Stylina parvipora
Ogilvie 1896
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Stylosmilia cf. michelini
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Acroporidae
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Amphiastreidae
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Solenocoeniidae
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Comoseridae
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Latomeandridae
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Latimaeandra brevivallis
Becker 1875
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Isastrea minima
(Koby 1885)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Thecosmiliidae
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Montlivaltia truncata
(Defrance 1817)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Dermosmiliidae
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Calamophylliopsis flabellum
(de Blainville 1830)
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Andemantastraeidae
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Diplocteniopsidae
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Latiphyllia suevica
(Quenstedt 1858)
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Astraeidae
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Montlivaltia cf. nattheimensis
Milaschewitsch 1876
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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] |