Where: Volgograd, Russian Federation (49.3° N, 44.5° E: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 38.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; glauconitic, quartzose, green sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by L. A. Nessov
Primary reference: L. A. Nessov and A. A. Yarkov. 1989. Novye ptitsy Mela-Paleogena SSSR i nekotorye zamechaniya po istorii vozniknoveniya i evolyutsii klassa [New Cretaceous-Paleogene birds of the USSR and some remarks on the origin and evolution of the Class Aves]. In R. L. Potapov (ed.), Fauna i Ekologiya Ptits Evrazii [Faunistic and Ecological Studies of Eurasian Birds]. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, Akademiya Nauk SSSR 197:78-97 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 118366: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.10.2011, edited by David Nicholson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle “Sea turtles, similar with Tasbacka aldabergeni Ness., but twice larger” (Nessov and Yarkov, 1989:80)
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Aves | |
Volgavis marina n. gen. n. sp.
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