Also known as Vetluga, Pless, left bank of the Volga, Zone V, Upper Volga
Where: Ivanovo, Russian Federation (57.4° N, 41.5° E: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 34.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Zone V zone, Vetlugian Series Formation, Early/Lower Triassic (252.2 - 247.2 Ma)
• Vetlugian Series (Lozovsky 1993), Volga Basin
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. A. Efremov. 1940. Predvaritel'noye opisaniye novykh form permskoy i triasovoy fauny nazemnykh pozvonochnykh SSSR [Preliminary description of new forms from the Permian and Triassic terrestrial vertebrate fauna of the USSR]. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademiy Nauk SSSR 10(2):1-140 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 28467: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 14.02.2003, edited by Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Volgosuchus cornutus n. gen. n. sp., Angusaurus weidenbaumi n. sp.
Volgosuchus cornutus n. gen. n. sp. Efremov 1940 tetrapod group = Neorhachitomi, family = Benthosuchidae
Angusaurus weidenbaumi n. sp. Kuzmin 1935 tetrapod | |
"Lyrocephalus acutirostris n. sp." = Thoosuchus acutirostris
"Lyrocephalus acutirostris n. sp." = Thoosuchus acutirostris Hartmann-Weinberg and Kuzmin 1936 tetrapod |