Sarafanikha site (Triassic of Russian Federation)

Also known as Vetluga River

Where: Nizhnii Novgorod, Russian Federation (57.1° N, 45.2° E: paleocoordinates 31.5° N, 36.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Induan (252.2 - 251.2 Ma)

• No exact geologic age is given in the literature on the present locality. Age assignment here is based on the assumption that all material of Contritosaurus is from the lowest Triassic ("base of the Vetluga Series").

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: M. F. Ivakhnenko. 1974. New Data of the Early Triassic Procolophonids of the USSR. Paleontological Journal 8(3):346-351 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93573: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 25.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Parareptilia - Procolophonidae
"Contritosaurus simus" = Phaanthosaurus simus
"Contritosaurus simus" = Phaanthosaurus simus Ivakhnenko 1974 parareptile
PIN 3356/1