Aktash, Gissar Mountains (Cretaceous of Tajikistan)

Where: Tajikistan (38.8° N, 68.4° E: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 63.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. I. Kuzmicheva. 1987. Verkhnemelovyye i paleogenovyye korally SSSR [Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene corals from the USSR] 1-187 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86687: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.02.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
Pleurocora djalilovi n. sp. Reyman 1975 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Heliastraeidae
Heliastrea virga n. sp. Reyman 1975 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Antiguastrea jacobi Alloiteau 1948 stony coral