Kul'dzhuktau Mountains, Kyzylkum (Cretaceous of Uzbekistan)

Where: Uzbekistan (40.8° N, 63.8° E: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 66.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 112.0 Ma)

• Clansayesian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85420: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.12.2008, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Helioporacea - Helioporidae
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylina cremai stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cladophylliidae
Cladophyllia stewartae Wells 1944 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
"Hemiporites jacobi" = Nefocoenia
"Hemiporites jacobi" = Nefocoenia stony coral
 Scleractinia - Placocoeniidae
Astrogyra edwardsi Reuss 1854 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Trochosmilia asiatica n. sp. Kuzmicheva 1982 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderofungia irregularis Felix 1891 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Calamophylliopsis sandbergeri Felix 1891 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Mesomorpha pyanovskae Kuzmicheva 1970 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
"Actinastrea retifera" = Stelidioseris retifera
"Actinastrea retifera" = Stelidioseris retifera Stoliczka 1873 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Microsolena texana Wells 1932 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Latiastraea pjtkovi n. sp. Kuzmicheva 1982 stony coral
Ovalastraea heckeri n. sp. Kuzmicheva 1982 stony coral