Kosjeric (Cretaceous of Serbia and Montenegro)

Where: Serbia and Montenegro (44.0° N, 19.9° E: paleocoordinates 27.3° N, 18.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm

• patch reefs

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. Turnsek. 1992. Tethyan Cretaceous corals in Yugoslavia. in H. A. Kollmann and H. Zapfe, eds., New aspects on Tethyan Cretaceous fossil assemblages, Schriftenreihe der Erdwissenschaftlichen Kommissionen 9:155-170 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79221: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Corbariastraea junctiseptata
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
"Actinastraea orbignyana" = Actinastrea
"Actinastraea orbignyana" = Actinastrea stony coral
listed as Actinastrastraea
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
"Microsolena aff. distefanoi" = Microsolena major
"Microsolena aff. distefanoi" = Microsolena major Ferry 1861 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Nefophyllia multicincta
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Procladocora tenuis" = Cladocora gracilis
"Procladocora tenuis" = Cladocora gracilis d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Placocoeniidae
"Placocoenia dumortieri" = Paraplacocoenia rotula
"Placocoenia dumortieri" = Paraplacocoenia rotula Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Heliastraeidae
"Heliastrea" lilli
"Heliastrea" lilli stony coral