Belaya-Pshekha Rivers, Caucasus (Jurassic to of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 4001

Where: Russian Federation (44.2° N, 39.9° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 45.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• 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 90020: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.06.2009, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
"Pachygyra choffati" = Psammogyra choffati Koby 1880 stony coral
Rhipidogyra flabellum Michelin 1843 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Placophylliidae
"Stylosmilia cf. rugosa" = Placophyllia rugosa
"Stylosmilia cf. rugosa" = Placophyllia rugosa Becker 1875 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
"Etallonia minima" = Etallonasteria minima
"Etallonia minima" = Etallonasteria minima Etallon 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
"Thamnoseris amedei" = Meandrophyllia amedei
"Thamnoseris amedei" = Meandrophyllia amedei Etallon 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Calamophylliopsis flabellum de Blainville 1830 stony coral
Calamophylliopsis etalloni Koby 1884 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Dermoseris plicata stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Thecosmilia magna Etallon 1864 stony coral
Thecosmilia annularis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
Montlivaltia truncata Defrance 1817 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Eugyridae
Myriophyllia angustata d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Solenocoeniidae
"Stylina semiradiata" = Solenocoenia semiradiata
"Stylina semiradiata" = Solenocoenia semiradiata Etallon 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Heliocoenia humberti Etallon 1858 stony coral
"Heliocoenia aff. carpathica" = Stylina inflata Fromentel 1856 stony coral
Stylosmilia cf. suevica Becker 1875 stony coral