Takhtachour ravine (Permian of Russian Federation)

Where: Kazan, Russian Federation (56.0° N, 52.7° E: paleocoordinates 29.0° N, 44.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kazan Formation, Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified, gray claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by M.E. Noinsky in 1926

• Repository: possibly Vernadsky State Geological Museum (Moscow)

Primary reference: M. D. Zalessky. 1928. Sur un nouvel insecte Névroptéroïde du Permien du bassin de Kama. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, Quatrième Série 28:381-385 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152755: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Orthoptera - Pruvostitidae
Pruvostites takhtachurensis n. gen. n. sp. Zalessky 1928 grasshopper