Peski Quarry (Jurassic of Russian Federation)

Where: Moskva, Russian Federation (55.2° N, 38.8° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 44.4° N, 46.5° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Quenstedtoceras lamberti ammonoid zone, Meshchera Member (Podosinkovskaya Formation), Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• upper part of an oolite marl bed in the upper Callovian part of the section corresponding to the Quenstedtoceras lamberti Ammonite Biozone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; ooidal marl

• oolite marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A.B. Vidryk in 1997

Primary reference: A. O. Averianov and N. G. Zverkov. 2020. New diplodocoid sauropod dinosaur material from the Middle Jurassic of European Russia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 65(3):499-509 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 209783: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 15.05.2020

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

• Museum of Natural History at Moscow Children’s Ecological and Biological Center, Moscow, Russia.
unclassified
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Halcobeloides sp.
Encrusted on sauropod vertebrae
Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Diplodocoidea indet. Upchurch 1995 sauropod
MCEBC 1100300/216 and 1100300/215 (two anterior caudal vertebrae); previously attributed to a gigantic pliosaurid plesiosaur (Zverkov et al. 2017: fig. 2)
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
Encrusted on sauropod vertebrae
Propomatoceros lumbricalis
Encrusted on sauropod vertebrae
Polychaeta
 Serpulimorpha -
Filogranula runcinata
Encrusted on sauropod vertebrae
Spiraserpula oligospiralis
Encrusted on sauropod vertebrae