Obirkovo (Permian to of Russian Federation)

Also known as Staraya Tot'ma River, Sukhona Basin

Where: Vologda, Russian Federation (60.0° N, 43.1° E: paleocoordinates 31.4° N, 36.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Scutosaurus karpinskii other zone, Salarevo Formation, Late/Upper Severodvinian to Late/Upper Severodvinian (264.3 - 257.4 Ma)

• Sokolki Subassemblage of the Sokolki Assemblage; the later part of the Late Tatarian (late Severodvinian–Vyatkian) (Golubev 2000; Benton 2012, Geology).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; pebbly conglomerate

• " [...] pebble conglomerate bed [...]"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by O. V. Yashina in 2002; reposited in the PIN

• Holotype of Obirkovia gladiator was collected in 2002 by "workers of the Department of Nature of the Cherepovets Regional Museum, headed by O.V. Yashina" (Bulanov & Yashina, 2005).

Primary reference: V. V. Bulanov and O. V. Yashina. 2005. Elginiid Pareiasaurs of Eastern Europe. Paleontological Journal 39(4):428-432 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93016: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 21.12.2009

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Taxonomic list

• Bulanov & Yashina (2005) say that Kapinskiosaurus sp., Chroniosuchus sp., Dicynodon sp. and Therapsida indet. occur at the Obirkovo locality, but give no further details.
Reptilia
 Procolophonomorpha - Elginiidae
Obirkovia gladiator n. gen. n. sp.
Obirkovia gladiator n. gen. n. sp. Bulanov and Yashina 2005 parareptile
PIN 4546/18 (type)