Komintern, Lesser Caucasus (Jurassic of Azerbaijan)

Also known as Reef 3674

Where: Azerbaijan (40.5° N, 45.8° E: paleocoordinates 29.5° N, 51.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• coral-chaetetid biostrome

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. G. Babayev. 1970. Biostratigrafiya verkhneyurskikh otlozheniy Malogo Kavkaza (Azerbaydzhana) po skleraktiniyam [Upper Jurassic biostratigraphy of the Lesser Caucasus (Azerbaidzhan) based on scleractinians]. in Mezozoyskiye korally SSSR [Mesozoic corals of the USSR], Papers of II Allunion Symposium on fossil corals of the USSR (4)81-92 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78418: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Cladophylliidae
Cladophyllia sp.
Cladophyllia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Heliocoenia sp., Stylosmilia sp.
Heliocoenia sp. Etallon 1859 stony coral
Stylosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Montlivaltia sp., Montlivaltia cf. vesiculosa
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
Montlivaltia cf. vesiculosa Koby 1884 stony coral