Kyrvakar, Lesser Caucasus (Jurassic of Azerbaijan)

Also known as Reef 3675

Where: Azerbaijan (40.5° N, 46.1° E: paleocoordinates 29.6° N, 51.8° 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 78422: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
"Calamophyllia kyrvakarensis" = Calamophylliopsis kyrvakarensis, "Calamophyllia flabellum" = Calamophylliopsis flabellum
"Calamophyllia kyrvakarensis" = Calamophylliopsis kyrvakarensis Babaev 1965 stony coral
"Calamophyllia flabellum" = Calamophylliopsis flabellum de Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Microsolena fromenteli Koby 1887 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Isastrea bernensis Etallon 1864 stony coral
Isastrea helianthoides Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
"Maeandramorpha daschkessanica" = Clausastrea daschkessanica Babayev 1973 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Solenocoeniidae
"Cryptocoenia sexradiata" = Solenocoenia sexradiata
"Cryptocoenia sexradiata" = Solenocoenia sexradiata Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Heliocoenia bendukidzeae Babayev 1973 stony coral
"Cryptocoenia thiessingi" = Stylina thiessingi Koby 1881 stony coral
Stylosmilia michelini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral