ammonites
Alkhashenda, Ribisa, Valkhokh (Jurassic to of Georgia)

Also known as Reef 3999

Where: South Ossetia, Georgia (42.5° N, 43.8° E: paleocoordinates 0.8° S, 48.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Oxfordian to Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 150.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: N. S. Bendukidze. 1982. Pozdneyurskiye korally rifogennykh otlozheniy Kavkaza i Kryma [Upper Jurassic corals from the reef deposits of the Caucasus and Crimea]. Akademiya Nauk Gruzinskoy SSR, Geologicheskiy Institut imeni A I Dzhanelidze, Trudy 74:1-166 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90002: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.06.2009