Also known as Reef 1971
Where: Georgia (42.3° N, 43.2° E: paleocoordinates 7.7° 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
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 89976: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.06.2009, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Floria sexradiata" = Floriastrea sexradiata
"Floria sexradiata" = Floriastrea sexradiata Sikharulidze 1985 stony coral | |
Heliocoenia picteti, "Stylina elegans" = Stylina inwaldensis
Heliocoenia picteti Koby 1895 stony coral
"Stylina elegans" = Stylina inwaldensis Ogilvie 1897 stony coral | |
Demospongiae | |
Chaetetopsis favrei demosponge |