Kokh Mountain, Caucasus (Jurassic to of Georgia)

Also known as Reef 3998

Where: Georgia (42.1° N, 44.9° E: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 50.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Oxfordian to Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 152.1 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 90000: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.06.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Placophylliidae
"Stylosmilia rugosa" = Placophyllia rugosa
"Stylosmilia rugosa" = Placophyllia rugosa Becker 1875 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Calamophylliopsis flabellum de Blainville 1830 stony coral
Calamophylliopsis etalloni Koby 1884 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Calamophylliidae
"Calamophylliopsis disputabilis" = Calamoseris disputabilis
"Calamophylliopsis disputabilis" = Calamoseris disputabilis Becker 1875 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Thamnoseris frotei Etallon 1862 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Puschastraea kokhensis n. sp. Bendukidze 1982 stony coral
Thecosmilia cartieri Koby 1884 stony coral
"Thecosmilia trichotoma" = Thecosmilia densa Fromentel 1870 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Diplocteniopsidae
Latiphyllia suevica Quenstedt 1858 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Solenocoeniidae
"Stylina semiradiata" = Solenocoenia semiradiata
"Stylina semiradiata" = Solenocoenia semiradiata Etallon 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Heliocoenia variabilis Etallon 1859 stony coral
"Cryptocoenia aff. delemontana" = Adelocoenia delemontana Koby 1889 stony coral
Stylina parvipora Ogilvie 1896 stony coral
Stylina thiessingi Koby 1881 stony coral
Enallhelia aff. compressa Münster 1829 stony coral
Stylosmilia michelini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral