Petropavlovka I (Locality 19): Olenekian, Russian Federation
collected by A. G. Sennikov, among others 1995

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Garjaina sp.
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
? Yarengia sp. Shishkin 1960
1 element
? Parotosuchus sp. Ochev and Shishkin 1968
1 element
Parotosuchus orientalis (Ochev 1966)
1 element
see Ochev (1972, 1995)
Reptilia - Procolophonidae
Kapes cf. majmesculae (Ochev 1968)
Novikov and Sues 2004 1 individual
PIN 4365/40
Tichvinskia majmesculae n. sp. Ochev 1968
Novikov 1991 1 individual
recombined as Kapes majmesculae
PIN 4365/5 (type)
Kapes majmesculae (Ochev 1968)
several postcranial elements and jaws
see common names

Geography
Country:Russian Federation State/province:Orenburg
Coordinates: 52.0° North, 55.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.0° North, 44.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Early/Lower Triassic
Stage:Olenekian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 1
Key time interval:Olenekian
Age range of interval:251.20000 - 247.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Petropavlovka Member:Yarensk
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: "Petropavlovskaya Svita, upper part of the Yarenskian Gorizont (Parotosuchus fauna; Early Triassic: 0lenekian)" (Novikov & Sues, 2004)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray sandstone
Lithology description: "Buff and buff-grey, variably grained, cross-bedded sandstone" (Tverdokhlebov et al., 2003 p. 29); for a detailed description of the rocks of the Petropavlovskaya Svita see ibidem p. 13 f.
Environment:"channel" Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Geology comments: "Tributary channel deposits" (Tverdokhlebov et al., 2003 p. 29)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:none
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:PIN
Collectors:A. G. Sennikov, among others Collection dates:1995
Metadata
Database number:79946
Authorizer:J. Mueller Enterer:J. Dummasch, T. Liebrecht
Modifier:T. Liebrecht Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-03-28 04:17:28 Last modified:2008-12-21 23:06:26
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-03-28 04:17:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

28844. V. P. Tverdokhlebov, G. I. Tverdokhlebova, M. V. Surkov and M. J. Benton. 2003. Tetrapod localities from the Triassic of the SE of European Russia. Earth-Science Reviews 60(1-2):1-66 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/B. Allen]

Secondary references:

31491 I. V. Novikov. 1991. Novye Dannye po Prokolofoninam SSSR [New data on Procolophonines of the USSR]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1991(2):73-85 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]
26868 I.V. Novikov and H.-D. Sues. 2004. Cranial osteology of Kapes (Parareptilia: Procolophonidae) from the Lower Triassic of Orenburg Province, Russia. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 232(2):267-281 [J. Mueller/J. Dummasch]