Obshchii Syrt Highland (Triassic of Russian Federation)

Also known as Obschy Syrt

Where: Orenburg, Russian Federation (51.9° N, 54.5° E: paleocoordinates 31.5° N, 45.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Sukhorechka Formation, Induan (252.2 - 251.2 Ma)

• "The basal Triassic deposits of the Obshchii Syrt Highland are represented by the Sukhorechka (previously termed Kopanskoe: Reshenie …, 1982) Formation correlated with the Induan Stage (Novikov and Sennikov, 2012; Tverdokhlebov, 2014)." (Novikov, 2016)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. V. Novikov. 2016. New tempospondyl amphibians from the basal Triassic of the Obshchii Syrt Highland, Eastern Europe. Paleontological Journal 50(3):297-310 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195805: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 27.08.2018

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Tupilakosauridae
Tupilakosaurus sp. Nielsen 1954 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli - Benthosuchidae
Qantas sp. Novikov 2012 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli - Mastodonsauridae
Samarabatrachus bjerringi n. gen. n. sp. Novikov 2016 tetrapod
PIN 2426/16, skull
Selenocara rossica n. sp. Novikov 2016 tetrapod
PIN 5496/6, incomplete skull
 Temnospondyli - Trematosauridae
Trematotegmen otschevi n. gen. n. sp.
Trematotegmen otschevi n. gen. n. sp. Getmanov 1982 tetrapod
PIN 4200/1 (SGU 1599/2), incomplete skull
 Temnospondyli - Lydekkerinidae
Lydekkerinidae indet. Watson 1919 tetrapod