Korta, Racha Region (Jurassic to of Georgia)

Also known as Reef 4000

Where: Georgia (42.5° N, 43.4° E: paleocoordinates 0.2° S, 48.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-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 90017: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.06.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
Meandraraea gresslyi, "Thamnoseris amedei" = Meandrophyllia amedei, "Microsolena rotula" = Astraraea rotula
Meandraraea gresslyi Etallon 1864 stony coral
"Thamnoseris amedei" = Meandrophyllia amedei Etallon 1864 stony coral
"Microsolena rotula" = Astraraea rotula Koby 1887 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Diplocteniopsidae
Latiphyllia suevica Quenstedt 1858 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Isastrea favosiformis Bendukidze 1949 stony coral
Isastrea helianthoides Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
Isastrea propinqua Etallon 1864 stony coral
Clausastrea korthensis Bendukidze 1949 stony coral
Thecosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Montlivaltia crassisepta Fromentel 1861 stony coral
Montlivaltia truncata Defrance 1817 stony coral
Montlivaltia choffati Koby 1883 stony coral
Montlivaltia turgida Milaschewitz 1876 stony coral
"Montlivaltia renevieri" = Montlivaltia vesiculosa Koby 1884 stony coral
Montlivaltia nattheimensis Milaschewitsch 1876 stony coral
Montlivaltia rosula Eichwald 1865 stony coral
Montlivaltia aff. cavali d'Achiardi 1880 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Dimorpharaea desori Koby 1888 stony coral
Dimorpharaea lineata Eichwald 1865 stony coral
Dimorpharaea koechlini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1860 stony coral
Dimorpharaea aequiseptalis Bendukidze 1949 stony coral
Comoseris tschordensis Bendukidze 1949 stony coral
Comoseris meandrinoides Michelin 1843 stony coral
"Thecosmilia irregularis" = Dermoseris irregularis Thurmann and Etallon 1864 stony coral
Microsolena sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
Microsolena caesaris Koby 1887 stony coral
Microsolena ornata Koby 1887 stony coral
Microsolena sinuata Etallon 1862 stony coral
Microsolena thurmanni Koby 1887 stony coral
Microsolena fromenteli Koby 1887 stony coral
Microsolena agariciformis Etallon 1859 stony coral
"Dimorpharaea tenuilamellosa" = Trochoplegma tenuilamellosa Gregory 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
"Latiastraea variabilis" = Latiastrea variabilis Etallon 1858 stony coral
"Isastrea aff. minima" = Latiastrea minima Koby 1885 stony coral
Dimorphastrea fallax Becker 1875 stony coral
Dimorphastrea fungiformis Bendukidze 1949 stony coral
Dimorphastrea vasiformis Koby 1886 stony coral
Dimorphastrea ratshensis Bendukidze 1949 stony coral
Dimorphastrea dubia Fromentel 1861 stony coral
"Dimorphastrea variabilis" = Comophyllia variabilis Koby 1886 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
"Stylina excelsa" = Adelocoenia excelsa Etallon 1858 stony coral
Stylina tubulifera Phillips 1829 stony coral
Heliocoenia kabakovitschae n. sp. Bendukidze 1982 stony coral
Heliocoenia variabilis Etallon 1859 stony coral
Goniocora pumila Quenstedt 1852 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Thamnasteria concinnaformis n. sp. Bendukidze 1982 stony coral
Thamnasteria racemosa Bendukidze 1949 stony coral
Thamnasteria concinna Goldfuss 1826 stony coral