Pshitsa, Abkhaziya (Jurassic to of Georgia)

Also known as Reef 3919

Where: Georgia (43.4° N, 40.7° E: paleocoordinates 1.9° N, 48.8° 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

• reefal limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85932: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.01.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
"Etallonia minima" = Etallonasteria minima
"Etallonia minima" = Etallonasteria minima Etallon 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Microsolena haimei stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Clausastrea dubia de Fromentel 1861 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cyathophoridae