Also known as Reef 2019
Where: Severnaya Osetiya-Alaniya, Russian Federation (42.9° N, 44.2° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 49.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: N. S. Bendukidze. 1982. Pozdneyurskiye korally rifogennykh otlozheniy Kavkaza i Kryma [Upper Jurassic corals from the reef deposits of the Caucasus and Crimea]. Akademiya Nauk Gruzinskoy SSR, Geologicheskiy Institut imeni A I Dzhanelidze, Trudy 74:1-166 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 89999: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.06.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Heliocoenia variabilis Etallon 1859 stony coral | |
Thecosmilia annularis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
"Thecosmilia trichotoma" = Thecosmilia densa Fromentel 1870 stony coral
Montlivaltia truncata Defrance 1817 stony coral | |
Actinaraea granulata Münster 1829 stony coral | |
Diplocoenia coespitosa Etallon 1862 stony coral | |
Dimorpharaea lineata, Dimorpharaea aequiseptalis, "Thecosmilia irregularis" = Dermoseris irregularis
Dimorpharaea lineata Eichwald 1865 stony coral
Dimorpharaea aequiseptalis Bendukidze 1949 stony coral
"Thecosmilia irregularis" = Dermoseris irregularis Thurmann and Etallon 1864 stony coral |