Terek River, Caucasus: Early/Lower Tithonian, Russian Federation

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 - Dermosmiliidae
Epistreptophyllum cf. giganteum Roniewicz 1976
Calamophylliopsis etalloni (Koby 1884)
Calamophylliopsis flabellum (de Blainville 1830)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Andemantastraeidae
Andemantastraea cf. michelini Beauvais 1964
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Montlivaltia cf. nattheimensis Milaschewitsch 1876
Montlivaltia truncata (Defrance 1817)
Thecosmilia trichotoma (Goldfuss 1826)
synonym of Thecosmilia densa
Thecosmilia cartieri Koby 1884
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Diplocteniopsidae
Latiphyllia suevica (Quenstedt 1858)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Thecosmilia irregularis Thurmann and Etallon 1864
recombined as Dermoseris irregularis
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Isastrea minima (Koby 1885)
recombined as Latiastrea minima
Isastrea thurmanni (Etallon 1864)
original and current combination Microphyllia thurmanni
Latimaeandra brevivallis Becker 1875
recombined as Microphyllia brevivallis
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Solenocoeniidae
Stylina semiradiata (Etallon 1864)
recombined as Solenocoenia semiradiata
Convexastrea sexradiata (Goldfuss 1826)
recombined as Solenocoenia sexradiata
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Cyathophoridae
Cryptocoenia cf. octosepta (Etallon 1864)
Cryptocoenia castellum (Michelin 1843)
Cyathophora gresslyi
Cyathophora bourgueti (Defrance 1826)
Cyathophora thurmanni Koby 1881
Cyathophora claudiensis Etallon 1859
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Cryptocoenia limbata (Goldfuss 1829)
recombined as Adelocoenia limbata
Stylosmilia cf. michelini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Heliocoenia variabilis Etallon 1859
Stylina parvipora Ogilvie 1896
Stylina tubulifera (Phillips 1829)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
Amphiastraea basaltiformis (Etallon 1859)
misspelling Amphiastrea basaltiformis
see common names

Geography
Country:Russian Federation State/province:Severnaya Osetiya-Alaniya
Coordinates: 42.9° North, 44.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.2° North, 49.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Tithonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Tithonian
Age range of interval:149.20000 - 146.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: mostly from the Baltovskaya Svita (Tithonian)
Lower Tithonian according to Kuznetsov (1993)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:dolomitic lithified "limestone"
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: barrier reef
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 638
Database number:89994
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-06-25 02:35:51 Last modified:2009-07-08 04:45:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
30142. 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]