Dzhvarisubani, Caucasus (Jurassic to of Georgia)

Also known as Reef 3998

Where: Georgia (42.2° N, 44.6° E: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 50.0° 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 90027: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.06.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
Aplosmilia cf. semisulcata Michelin 1843 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Solenocoeniidae
"Stylina semiradiata" = Solenocoenia semiradiata, "Stylina sexradiata" = Solenocoenia sexradiata
"Stylina semiradiata" = Solenocoenia semiradiata Etallon 1864 stony coral
"Stylina sexradiata" = Solenocoenia sexradiata Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Calamophylliopsis flabellum de Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylina tenax Etallon and Thurmann 1864 stony coral
Stylosmilia michelini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral