Zheshart (Triassic of Russian Federation)

Also known as Vychegda River, Vichegda River, Zheshard

Where: Komi, Russian Federation (62.1° N, 49.6° E: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 32.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Yarenskian Formation (Gamskaya Group), Olenekian (251.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• "Upper Yarenskian Gorizont" of late Olenekian age (Gower & Sennikov 2000)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: P. S. Spencer and G. W. Storrs. 2002. A re-evaluation of small tetrapods from the Middle Triassic Otter Sandstone Formation of Devon, England. Palaeontology 45(3):447-467 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85454: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 21.12.2008, edited by Richard Butler and Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Parotosuchus komiensis n. sp.1 Novikov 1986 tetrapod
PIN 3361/18, partial skull
 Temnospondyli - Trematosauridae
Trematosaurus sp.4 Burmeister 1849 tetrapod
PIN 3361/149, right exoccipital, and 3361/41, right pterygoid
 Temnospondyli - Tupilakosauridae
Batrachosuchoides sp.6 Shishkin 1967 tetrapod
Reptilia
 Parareptilia - Procolophonidae
"Macrophon komiensis n. gen. n. sp." = Kapes komiensis3, Kapes amaenus n. gen. n. sp.
"Macrophon komiensis n. gen. n. sp." = Kapes komiensis3 Ivakhnenko 1975 parareptile
PIN 3361/1 (pars?) (type)
Kapes amaenus n. gen. n. sp. Ivakhnenko 1975 parareptile
PIN 3361/1 (pars?), 3361/2 (type), 3361/4 to 3361/14; all are either maxillae or lower jaws/dentaries; PIN 3361/12 to 14 reported by Novikov (1991) but not listed in Ivakhnenko (2008).
 Diapsida -
"Gamosaurus lozovskii n. gen. n. sp." = Chasmatosuchus magnus5
"Gamosaurus lozovskii n. gen. n. sp." = Chasmatosuchus magnus5 Ochev 1979 archosauromorph
3361/13, cervical vertebra (holotype). Referred spcimens listed by Ezcurra (2016): 3361/14, 94, 183, 213, 214.
 Pseudosuchia -
Vytshegdosuchus zheshartensis n. gen. n. sp.2 Sennikov 1988 archosaur
PIN 3361/134 (holotype), right ilium; abundant postcranial fragments