Chuku Mountain, Belbek River, Crimea (Cretaceous of Ukraine)

Where: Ukraine (44.6° N, 33.9° E: paleocoordinates 6.7° N, 44.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. I. Kuzmicheva. 1987. Verkhnemelovyye i paleogenovyye korally SSSR [Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene corals from the USSR] 1-187 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86798: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.02.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Gorgonacea -
Corallium elegantum n. sp. Kuzmicheva 1987 gorgonian