Bodrak River, Crimea (Paleocene of Ukraine)

Where: Krym, Ukraine (44.8° N, 34.0° E: paleocoordinates 20.3° N, 46.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

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 86684: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.02.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Gorgonacea -
Moltkia minuta Nielsen 1918 gorgonian
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
"Fungiacyathus bodrakensis n. sp." = Trochoseris aperta
"Fungiacyathus bodrakensis n. sp." = Trochoseris aperta Duncan 1864 stony coral