Vakhnevo locality (Triassic of Russian Federation)

Also known as Vachnevo, Vahnevo, Wachnjewo; Sharzhenga River, Sharjenga River, Fluss Scharschenga; Yug River Basin

Where: Vologda, Russian Federation (59.8° N, 45.2° E: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 33.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Olenekian (251.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• Vetlugian, Zone V (Vjushkov & Chudinov, 1956).

•Rybinskian, Lower Olenekian, Lower Triassic (Sennikov, 2008).

•Chronostratigraphy, originally entered as >>Early/Lower Triassic<<, is rendered more precisely according to Sennikov (2008). Formation name >>Vetlugian Series<< is removed for it is no lithostratigraphic term.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by I. A. Efremov in 1927–1929; reposited in the PIN

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 28479: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 16.02.2003, edited by Torsten Liebrecht, Richard Butler and Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

• Thecodontosaurus reported to be present in the "localities of the rivers Sharjenga, Vetluga, Jug and Luza." Also "scales of Ganoid fishes (Acrolepis) and the shells of Estheria."

•Reidentification of Chasmatosuchus parvus as Chasmatosuchus sp. by Tatarinov (1961) has been removed from list since a reassignment of the holotype and only specimen actually means a synonymization (TL).

Osteichthyes
 Tetrapoda - Bystrowianidae
Dromotectum spinosum3 Novikov and Shishkin 2000 tetrapod
PIN 2252/397, posterior caudal
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Benthosuchus sp. Efremov 1936 tetrapod
Benthosuchus sushkini n. sp.1 Efremov 1929 tetrapod
PIN 2243/1 (holotype), complete skull, now lost
Thoosuchus sp. Efremov 1940 tetrapod
Reptilia
 Diapsida -
Chasmatosuchus rossicus n. gen. n. sp.2 Huene 1940 archosauromorph
2252/12 to 15, 2252/381 (type), 2252/383, 2252/384, 2252/386 (all are vertebrals); catalogue numbers are from Sennikov (2008)
? Tsylmosuchus jakovlevi4 Sennikov 1990 archosauromorph
PIN 2243/166, partial atlas
 Protorosauria - Protorosauridae
"Microcnemus efremovi n. gen. n. sp." = Microcnemus efremovi2, "Chasmatosuchus parvus n. sp." = Microcnemus efremovi2
"Microcnemus efremovi n. gen. n. sp." = Microcnemus efremovi2 Huene 1940 archosauromorph
PIN 2243/161, 2243/162, 2243/163, 2252/37, 2252/38, 2252/54, 2252/61, 2252/69, 2252/94 to 2252/96 (all are vertebrae), 2252/97 to 2252/100, 2252/136, 2252/137 (all are fragments of bones of hind limb), 2252/164, 2252/165 (both are proximal ends of tibiae), 2252/387 (type; femur), 2252/388 (ischium), 2252/389, (incomplete femur), 2252/390 (scapulocoracoid), 2252/391 (tibia), 2252/392 (distal end of femur; identified as distal end of humerus by von Huene, 1940), 2252/393 (distal end of ?ulna), 2252/394 (diaphysis of femur; identified as diaphysis of humerus by von Huene, 1940), 2252/398 to 2252/400, 2252/401 to 2252/403 (all are vertebrae), 2252/404 (distal end of ?radius), 2252/405 to 2252/407 (all are vertebrae), 2252/408 (distal end of tibia); catalogue numbers are from Sennikov (2008)
"Chasmatosuchus parvus n. sp." = Microcnemus efremovi2 Huene 1940 archosauromorph
2252/382 (type); catalogue number is from Sennikov (2008)
 Parareptilia -
Tichvinskia jugensis n. sp.5 Vjushkov and Chudinov 1956 parareptile
PIN 2252/368 (type); previously tentatively referred to Microcnemus efremovi by von Huene (1940, Pl. 2 fig. 3)