Mezenskaya Pizhma and Lower Syamzhen'ga: Olenekian, Russian Federation

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Procolophonidae
Timanophon raridentatus n. gen., n. sp. Novikov 1991
11 specimens
PIN 3359/1 (from Nizhnyaya Syamzhen'ga-10), 3359/2 (from Nizhnyaya Syamshen'ga-8), 3359/3 (from Nizhnyaya Syamshen'ga-3), 3359/11 (type; from Nizhnyaya Syamzhen'ga-12; previously referred to Burtensia sp. by Ivakhnenko, 1975, Paleont. Zh. 1975(1)), 3359/63 (from Nizhnyaya Syamzhen'ga-8), 3359/64 and 65 (from Nizhnyaya Syamzhen'ga-4), 4364/35 to 38 (from Pizhma-1)
see common names

Geography
Country:Russian Federation State/province:Arkhangelsk County:Leshukonskoe
Coordinates: 64.6° North, 48.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.5° North, 30.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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:Pizhmomezenskoi
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Triassic, upper Sludiskian, Vetlugian, Pizhmomezenskoi Formation (Novikov, 1991).
Ust'-Myl'skian, Lower Olenekian, Lower Triassic (Ivakhnenko, 2008).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet. Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:none
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:PIN
Metadata
Also known as:Pizhma-Mezenskaya, Pizhmo-Mezen' River; Lower Syamzhenga; Nizhnyaya Syamzhenga-III, Nizhnyaya Syamzhenga-IV, Nizhnyaya Syamzhenga-VIII, Nizhnyaya Syamzhenga-X, Nizhyaya Syamzhenga-XII, Pizhma-I; Mezen' River Basin
Database number:93382
Authorizer:J. Mueller Enterer:T. Liebrecht
Modifier:T. Liebrecht Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-01-17 07:43:10 Last modified:2010-01-17 15:50:19
Access level:the public Released:2010-01-17 07:43:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

28657 M. F. Ivakhnenko. 2008. Podklass Parareptilia. In M. F. Ivakhnenko and E. N. Kurotchkin (eds.), Iskopaemye pozvonotchnye Rossii i sopredel'nykh stran: Iskopaemye reptilii i ptitsy, Tchast' 1 [Fossil vertebrates of Russia and adjacent countries: Fossil reptiles and birds, Part 1], GEOS, Moscow 49-85 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/T. Liebrecht]