Where: Volgograd, Russian Federation (49.4° N, 45.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 38.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Reworked
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: A. S. Schulp, A. O. Averianov, A. A. Yarkov, F. A. Trikolidi, and J. W. M. Jagt. 2006. First record of the Late Cretaceous durophagous mosaasaur Carinodens belgicus (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from Volgogradskaya Oblast (Russia) and Crimea (Ukraine). Russian Journal of Herpetology 213(3):175-180 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/J. Tennant]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 142788: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 16.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Edaphodon eolucifer chimaera | |
Osteichthyes | |
cf. Acipenser gigantissimus Nessov 1997 sturgeon | |
Reptilia | |
Cryptodira indet. turtle |