Tepebashe Mountains, Abkhaziya: Late/Upper Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian, Georgia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Etallonia minima (Etallon 1864)
recombined as Etallonasteria minima
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Thamnasteria valfinensis
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
Tskhanarella sikharulidzeae n. sp. Lebanidze 1991
recombined as Pruvostastraea sikharulidzeae
Pseudoironella abkhazica
Pseudoironella regularis Sikharulidze 1979
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Thecosmiliopsis elegans n. gen., n. sp. Lebanidze 1991
recombined as Thecosmilia elegans
Clausastrea parva Milne-Edwards and Haime 1857
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Calamophylliopsis compacta (Koby 1884)
Epistreptophyllum cf. bonjouri (Etallon 1862)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia
Etalloniopsis georgica
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Latiastraea bendukidzeae n. sp. Lebanidze 1991
recombined as Latiastrea bendukidzeae
Microphyllia humilis
Thamnoseris sp. Fromentel 1861
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Comoseris baltovensis Roniewicz 1966
Chomatoseris cf. orbulites (Lamouroux 1821)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
Mitrodendron ogilviae Geyer 1955
Mitrodendron modicum Eliasova 1975
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylosmilia corallina Koby 1881
Cryptocoenia hexaphyllia d'Orbigny 1850
recombined as Adelocoenia hexaphyllia
Cryptocoenia radisensis d'Orbigny 1850
recombined as Adelocoenia radisensis
Stylina parcicosta Koby 1905
Heliocoenia cf. etalloni Koby 1881
see common names

Geography
Country:Georgia
Coordinates: 43.5° North, 40.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.2° North, 48.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval:157.90000 - 149.20000 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
Also known as:Reef 3921
Database number:85936
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-01-20 02:29:18 Last modified:2009-04-16 14:16:43
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]