Kul'dzhuktau Mountains, Kyzylkum: Late/Upper Aptian, Uzbekistan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Mesomorpha pyanovskae Kuzmicheva 1970
45 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Actinastrea retifera (Stoliczka 1873)
23 specimens
recombined as Stelidioseris retifera
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Calamophyllia sandbergeri Felix 1891
4 specimens
    = Calamophylliopsis sandbergeri Felix 1891
Kiessling 2008
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderofungia irregularis Felix 1891
18 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Microsolena texana Wells 1932
8 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Latiastraea pjtkovi n. sp. Kuzmicheva 1982
7 specimens
Ovalastraea heckeri n. sp. Kuzmicheva 1982
21 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Trochosmilia asiatica n. sp. Kuzmicheva 1982
36 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Placocoeniidae
Astrogyra edwardsi (Reuss 1854)
6 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Hemiporites jacobi
8 specimens
synonym of Nefocoenia
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylina cremai
20 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Cladophylliidae
Cladophyllia stewartae Wells 1944
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Helioporacea - Helioporidae
Proheliopora kysylkumensis (Kuzmicheva 1970)
4 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Uzbekistan
Coordinates: 40.8° North, 63.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.6° North, 66.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 2-3
Key time interval:Late/Upper Aptian
Age range of interval:119.50000 - 113.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Clansayesian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:85420
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel, W. Kiessling
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-12-18 01:59:41 Last modified:2008-12-18 03:59:41
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

28811. Y. I. Kuzmicheva. 1982. Korally verkhnego Apta (Klanseya) tsentralnykh Kyzylkumov [Upper Aptian (Clansayesian) corals from central Kyzylkum]. Byulleten Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytateley Prirody Otdel Geologicheskiy 57(2):98-111 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

26431 W. Kiessling. 2008. New opinions on coral taxonomy. [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]