Lipovo village, PIN 3355: Induan, Russian Federation

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Procolophonidae
Contritosaurus simus n. gen., n. sp. Ivakhnenko 1974
1 individual
recombined as Phaanthosaurus simus
PIN 3355/1 (type)
see common names

Geography
Country:Russian Federation State/province:Nizhnii Novgorod County:Krasnye Baki
Coordinates: 57.1° North, 45.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.5° North, 36.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Early/Lower Triassic
Stage:Induan 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 1
Key time interval:Induan
Age range of interval:251.90200 - 251.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: " [...] Lower Triassic, Base of Vetluga Series." (Ivakhnenko, 1974). The Vetlugian corresponds to the Lower Triassic and, consequently, the base of the Vetlugian corresponds to the Induan Stage of the international geologic time scale. Ivakhnenko (2008, p.53) also assigns this locality to the Induan.
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:type locality of Contritosaurus simus; Vetluga River
Database number:93572
Authorizer:J. Mueller Enterer:T. Liebrecht
Modifier:R. Butler Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-01-25 08:45:36 Last modified:2017-10-20 17:58:08
Access level:the public Released:2010-01-25 08:45:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

31696. M. F. Ivakhnenko. 1974. New Data of the Early Triassic Procolophonids of the USSR. Paleontological Journal 8(3):346-351 [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]
29011 P. S. Spencer and M. J. Benton. 2000. Procolophonids from the Permo-Triassic of Russia. In M. J. Benton, M. A. Shishkin, D. M. Unwin & E. N. Kurochkin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 160-176 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/R. Butler]