Ali-Goresha area, Dzirul Massif (Cretaceous of Georgia)

Also known as Reef 1973

Where: Georgia (42.1° N, 43.6° E: paleocoordinates 8.4° S, 45.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• coral-rudist biostromes, 4-10 m thick

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: G. Y. Sikharulidze. 1985. Geksakorally urgonskoy fatsii Dzirulskogo Massiva i ego cevernogo obramlyeniya [Hexacorals from the Urgonian facies of the Dzirul Massif and its northern frame]. Akademiya Nauk Gruzinskoy SSR, Geologicheskiy Institut imeni A I Dzhanelidze, Trudy 88:1-78 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67512: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Textularia sp. Defrance 1824
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Diplocoenia etalloni n. sp. Sikharulidze 1985 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Dermosmilia aff. crassa Koby 1884 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Eugyridae
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Diplogyra subplanotabulata n. sp. Sikharulidze 1985 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Trochoidomeandridae
Trochoidomeandra sp. Morycowa 1971 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
Columellogyra brevidorsum n. sp. Sikharulidze 1985 stony coral
Columellogyra maeandra n. sp. Sikharulidze 1985 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Heterocoeniidae
Latusastrea decipiens Prever 1909 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
"Latiastraea minima" = Latiastrea minima Koby 1885 stony coral
Ellipsocoenia lorioli Koby 1896 stony coral
Ellipsocoenia conferta Umbgrove 1925 stony coral
Microphyllia undans Etallon 1859 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cyathophoridae
Pseudocoenia annae Volz 1903 stony coral
"Pentacoenia pulchella" = Cyathophora pulchella d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
Pentacoenia elegantula d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylina esmuni Felix 1909 stony coral
"Stylina regularis" = Stylina digitiformis Achiardi 1880 stony coral
Heliocoenia aff. variabilis Etallon 1859 stony coral
Heliocoenia pseudocorallina Sikharulidze 1977 stony coral
Heliocoenia corallina Koby 1881 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Mesomorpha punctata de Fromentel 1857 stony coral
Thamnasteria maeandra Koby 1898 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
"Amphiastraea aliensis" = Amphiaulastrea aliensis
"Amphiastraea aliensis" = Amphiaulastrea aliensis Sikharulidze 1977 stony coral
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Requieniidae
Requieniidae indet. Douvillé 1914 rudist
 Hippuritida - Diceratidae
Diceratidae indet. Dall 1895 rudist
 Life -