Also known as Orsk

Where: Orenburg, Russian Federation (51.3° N, 57.6° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 50.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lenticular, ferruginous, glauconitic, pebbly, phosphatic, quartzose sandstone and phosphatic conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Club of Young Geologists at the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren of Orsk, headed by G.A. Sopots’ko and A.V. Nikiforov in 2012–

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: V. M. Efimov, I. A. Meleshin, and A. V. Nikiforov. 2016. A New Species of the Plesiosaur Genus Polycotylus from the Upper Cretaceous of the Southern Urals. Paleontological Journal 50(5):494-503 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 224094: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 13.01.2022, edited by Philip Mannion

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