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 | |
"Contritosaurus simus" = Phaanthosaurus simus
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