Marukh River (Sowerbyi) (Jurassic of Georgia)

Where: Georgia (43.3° N, 41.3° E: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 47.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sonninia sowerbyi ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Bajocian (171.6 - 168.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, sandy limestone

• light sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Kharkov State University (now University of Kharkiv)

Primary reference: V. P. Kamyshan and L. I. Babanova. 1973. Middle Jurassic and Upper Jurassic brachiopods of the north-west Caucasus and Mountain Crimea. Vysha Shkola of the University of Kharkov 1-176 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162847: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 06.10.2014

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Prionorhynchiidae
Sphenorhynchia plicatelloides Buckman 1917
3 slightly deformed shells
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
 Rhynchonellida - Acanthothirididae
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Pseudogibbirhynchia plena n. sp. Kamyshan 1973