Ai-Petri reef, Crimea (Jurassic of Ukraine)

Also known as Reef 3442

Where: Ukraine (44.5° N, 34.1° E: paleocoordinates 3.6° N, 50.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Jajla Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• Large reef complex probably extending from Kimmeridgian to Berriasian. Bulk of reef seems to be Tithonian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; lithified reef rocks

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: M. Krajewski. 2008. Lithology of the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous (Tithonian-Lower Berriasian) Aj-Petri reef complex (southern Ukraine, the Crimea Mountains). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 249(2):239-255 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 62370: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 19.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella sp. Radoicic 1959
Lithocodium
  -
Lithocodium sp. Elliott 1956
Foraminifera
  -
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Discorbidae
Mohlerina basiliensis Mohler 1938
binding?
Foraminifera
  -
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae
 Hormosinacea - Telamminidae
Troglotella sp. Wernli and Fookes 1992
 Textulariina - Orbitopsellidae
 Lituolacea - Nautiloculinidae
Nautiloculina sp. Mohler 1938
 Thaumatoporellales -
Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Actinostromariidae
Actinostromaria sp. Haug 1909 demosponge
 Axinellida - Cladocoropsidae
Cladocoropsis mirabilis Felix 1907 demosponge
Stromatoporoidea
  -
Cylicopsis verticalis stromatoporoid sponge
listed as Cyclicopsis verticalis
Milleporidium sp. Steinmann 1903 stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Calamophylliopsis sp. Alloiteau 1952 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Latomeandra sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
Microphyllia sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Tubiphytes morronensis
  -
"Tubiphytes morronensis" = Crescentiella morronensis
"Tubiphytes morronensis" = Crescentiella morronensis Crescenti 1969