Lipovo village, PIN 3355 (Triassic of Russian Federation)

Also known as type locality of Contritosaurus simus; Vetluga River

Where: Nizhnii Novgorod, Russian Federation (57.1° N, 45.2° E: paleocoordinates 31.5° N, 36.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Induan (252.2 - 251.2 Ma)

• " [...] Lower Triassic, Base of Vetluga Series." (Ivakhnenko, 1974). The Vetlugian corresponds to the Lower Triassic and, consequently, the base of the Vetlugian corresponds to the Induan Stage of the international geologic time scale. Ivakhnenko (2008, p.53) also assigns this locality to the Induan.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: M. F. Ivakhnenko. 1974. New Data of the Early Triassic Procolophonids of the USSR. Paleontological Journal 8(3):346-351 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93572: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 25.01.2010

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Parareptilia - Procolophonidae
"Contritosaurus simus n. gen. n. sp." = Phaanthosaurus simus
"Contritosaurus simus n. gen. n. sp." = Phaanthosaurus simus Ivakhnenko 1974 parareptile
PIN 3355/1 (type)