Berezhane, PIN 1536 (Permian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Berezhane series, Berezhana, Berezjane, Бережане

Where: Kirov, Russian Federation (59.4° N, 50.3° E: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 39.1° E)

When: Archosaurus rossicus other zone, Vyatkian (259.5 - 257.4 Ma)

• Vyazniki Assemblage; the terminal part of the Late Tatarian (terminal part of the Vyatkian) (Golubev 2000; Benton 2012, Geology).

•"The terminal part of the Late Tatarian (terminal part of the Vyatkian)." (Golubev, 2006)

•"The Vyazniki Assemblage from the terminal Permian has no analogues in other continents and is the last, so far unknown stage in the history of the Late Per- mian continental biota." (Sennikov & Golubev, 2006)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green, red claystone and sandstone

• "The Berezhane series is very uniformly represented by deep red and crimson clays interbedded with green clay and rare sand lenses with small Ural pebbles." (Mazarovich, 1941)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: A. A. Kurkin. 2001. New Late Permian dicynodonts from the Vyazniki Assemblage of terrestrial tetrapods of Eastern Europe. Paleontological Journal 35(1):53-59 [J. Fröbisch/M. Walther]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120215: authorized by Jörg Fröbisch, entered by Marcus Walther on 09.11.2011, edited by Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• PIN 1536
Osteichthyes
 Tetrapoda - Chroniosuchidae
Chroniosuchidae indet.1 Vjushkov 1957 tetrapod
 Therocephalia - Perplexisauridae
Perplexisauridae indet.1 Tatarinov 2000 therapsid
PIN 1536/25, right and left frontals.
 Dicynodontia -
Delectosaurus berezhanensis n. gen. n. sp., "Vivaxosaurus permirus n. gen. n. sp." = Vivaxosaurus trautscholdi2
Delectosaurus berezhanensis n. gen. n. sp. Kurkin 2001 dicynodont
Holotype PIN 1536/2
"Vivaxosaurus permirus n. gen. n. sp." = Vivaxosaurus trautscholdi2 Amalitzky 1922 dicynodont
Type PIN 1536/1