Zhinvali-Aranisi, Caucasus: Late Oxfordian, Georgia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Calamophylliopsis flabellum (de Blainville 1830)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylosmilia michelini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Thecosmiliidae
Thecosmilia longimana (Quenstedt 1881)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Solenocoeniidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Georgia
Coordinates: 42.1° North, 44.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.8° North, 54.6° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Late Oxfordian
Age range of interval: 157.9 - 154.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
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 3998
Database number:90001
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-06-26 03:02:42 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]