Sachkhere, Dzirul Massif (Cretaceous of Georgia)

Also known as Reef 1971

Where: Georgia (42.3° N, 43.4° E: paleocoordinates 7.8° S, 46.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• coral-dominated biostrome or bioherm

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: G. Y. Sikharulidze. 1985. Geksakorally urgonskoy fatsii Dzirulskogo Massiva i ego cevernogo obramlyeniya [Hexacorals from the Urgonian facies of the Dzirul Massif and its northern frame]. Akademiya Nauk Gruzinskoy SSR, Geologicheskiy Institut imeni A I Dzhanelidze, Trudy 88:1-78 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89975: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.06.2009, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Paretallonia bendukidzeae Sikharulidze 1972 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Eugyridae
Eugyra interrupta de Fromentel 1868 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
"Microsolena distefanoi" = Microsolena major
"Microsolena distefanoi" = Microsolena major Ferry 1861 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
"Stylina elegans" = Stylina inwaldensis Ogilvie 1897 stony coral
Heliocoenia picteti Koby 1895 stony coral