Bolshoy Balkhan-5 (Cretaceous of Turkmenistan)
Where: Turkmenistan (39.6° N, 54.5° E: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 59.4° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Alikper Formation, Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks
• Lithology described as a complex (lens-like or dilophoid) bioherms with a broad base, 8-9m in diameter
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: I. J. Bugrova. 1990. The facies zonation and scleractinians of the early Hauterivian reef complex of Bolshoy Balkhan. Cretaceous Research 11(3):229-236 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/A. Clement]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 2264: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 30.06.1999, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
"Actinastraea colliculosa" = Actinastrea
"Actinastraea colliculosa" = Actinastrea stony coral | |
Dermosmilia cretacica Turnsek 1974 stony coral
Calamophylliopsis compressa d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral | |
Latiphyllia sp. Fromentel 1861 stony coral | |
Peplosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral | |
"Microsolena distefanoi" = Microsolena major
"Microsolena distefanoi" = Microsolena major Ferry 1861 stony coral | |
"Fungiastraea tendagurensis" = Dimorphastrea tendagurensis, Microphyllia undans, "Microsolena crassisepta" = Periseris crassisepta
"Fungiastraea tendagurensis" = Dimorphastrea tendagurensis Dietrich 1926 stony coral
Microphyllia undans Etallon 1859 stony coral
"Microsolena crassisepta" = Periseris crassisepta Sikharulidze 1985 stony coral | |
"Stylina regularis" = Stylina digitiformis, Stylosmilia alpina
"Stylina regularis" = Stylina digitiformis Achiardi 1880 stony coral
Stylosmilia alpina Koby 1895 stony coral |