ammonites
Ironella giseldonensis Krasnov and Starostina 1970 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae

Full reference: Y.e. V. Krasnov and E. A. Starostina. 1970. Pozdneyurskiye skleraktinii severnogo Kavkaza [Late Jurassic scleractinians of the northern Caucasus region]. in Mezozoyskiye korally SSSR [Mesozoic corals of the USSR], Papers of II Allunion Symposium on fossil corals of the USSR (4)75-80

Belongs to Ironella according to Ye. V. Krasnov and E. A. Starostina 1970

Sister taxa: Ironella arabica, Ironella rutimeyeri, Ironella tskhanariensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Gizeldon River, N Caucasus, which is in a Tithonian marine limestone in the Russian Federation

Ecology: stationary epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder