Malyy Balkhan Mountains, unit 3: Early/Lower Barremian, Turkmenistan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pachyphylliidae
Columnocoenia ksiazkiewiczi Morycowa 1964
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Eugyridae
Eugyra lanckoronensis (Morycowa 1964)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Clausastrea saltensis Alloiteau 1960
Peplosmilia fromenteli Angelis d'Ossat 1905
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Ellipsocoenia hemispherica (de Fromentel 1857)
original and current combination Favia hemispherica
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Actinacis remesi Felix 1903
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
Summigaraea concentrica
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Heterocoeniidae
Heterocoenia balkhanensis n. sp. Kuzmicheva 1987
Latusastrea provincialis (d'Orbigny 1849)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Actinastrea pseudominima (Koby 1897)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
Pleurostylina turkmenensis n. sp. Kuzmicheva 1987
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Microsolena kugleri Wells 1948
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Fungiastraea tendagurensis (Dietrich 1926)
recombined as Dimorphastrea tendagurensis
see common names

Geography
Country:Turkmenistan
Coordinates: 39.3° North, 55.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.7° North, 60.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Barremian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 2
Key time interval:Early/Lower Barremian
Age range of interval:130.00000 - 125.45000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: third bioherm
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: bioherm
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
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 3686
Database number:91685
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-10-15 01:58:36 Last modified:2009-10-15 03:58:36
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-10-15 01:58:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

30905. Y. I. Kuzmicheva. 1987. Korally iz nizhnebarremskikh organogennykh postroek Malogo Balkhana i Tuarkyra [Corals from Lower Barremian organogenous buildups from the Malyy Balkhan and Tuarkyr]. In K. N. Amanniyazov (ed.), Geologicheskoe stroenie Turkmenistana 217-262 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]