Zinzagal Gora, Lesser Caucasus (Jurassic of Azerbaijan)

Where: Azerbaijan (40.4° N, 46.2° E: paleocoordinates 29.6° N, 52.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: R. G. Babayev. 1970. O nekotorykh ekologicheskikh osobennostyakh pozdneyurskikh skleraktiniy Malogo Kavkaza (Azerbaydzhana) [Ecologic characteristics of Late Jurassic scleractinians of the Lesser Caucasus, Azerbaidzhan]. in Mezozoyskiye korally SSSR [Mesozoic corals of the USSR], Papers of II Allunion Symposium on fossil corals of the USSR (4)55-65 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 78414: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
"Anabacia orbulites" = Chomatoseris orbulites
"Anabacia orbulites" = Chomatoseris orbulites Lamouroux 1821 stony coral