Akh-Ag Mountains, Abkhaziya: Late/Upper Oxfordian, Georgia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Heliocoenia kakhadzei n. sp. Lebanidze 1991
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
Rhipidogyra flabellum (Michelin 1843)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Isastrea crassa (Goldfuss 1826)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Calamophylliopsis stokesi (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851)
recombined as Calamophylliopsis stockesi
Calamophylliopsis cervina (Etallon 1860)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Comoseris interrupta Koby 1888
Comoseris minima Beauvais 1964
see common names

Geography
Country:Georgia
Coordinates: 43.5° North, 40.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.6° North, 48.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Oxfordian
Age range of interval:157.90000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: conglomerates with reefal limestones
Environment:perireef or subreef
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:85908
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-01-19 06:10:51 Last modified:2009-01-19 08:23:07
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

28977. Z. M. Lebanidze. 1991. Pozdneyurskiye korally Zapadnoy Gruzii (Abkhaziya) [Upper Jurassic corals of western Georgia (Abkhaziya)]. Trudy Akademiya Nauk Gruzii, Geologicheskiy Institut Imeni A. I. Dzanelidze 105:1-64 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]