Polunino 1, Luchiskina Gorge: Maastrichtian, Russian Federation

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
? Azhdarchidae indet. Nessov 1984
Averianov and Yarkov 2004 1 element
Partial humerus
    = Ornithodira indet. Gauthier 1986
Dalla Vecchia et al. 2013
Possibly not pterosaur - may belong to a bird
see common names

Geography
Country:Russian Federation State/province:Volgograd County:Dubovsky
Coordinates: 49.6° North, 44.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.4° North, 38.8° East
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 8
Key time interval: Maastrichtian
Age range of interval: 72.1 - 66 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: "Maastrichtian vertebrates redeposited in the Paleocene"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:92415
Authorizer:R. Butler Enterer:R. Butler
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-11-11 06:33:10 Last modified:2023-11-15 10:00:09
Access level:the public Released:2009-11-11 06:33:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
31047. L. A. Nessov. 1990. Flying reptiles of the Jurassic and Cretaceous of the USSR and the significance of their remains for the reconstruction of paleogeographic conditions. Bulletin of Leningrad University, Series 7, Geology and Geography 4(28):3-10 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]

Secondary references:

86461 A. O. Averianov and A. V. Lopatin. 2023. Dinosaurs of Russia: a review of the localities. Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 93(4) [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
31150 A. O. Averianov and A. A. Yarkov. 2004. On the occurrence of a giant flying reptile (Pterosauria) in the terminal Late Cretaceous of the Lower Volga Region. Paleontological Journal 38(6):669-671 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
30958 N. N. Bakhurina and D. M. Unwin. 1995. a survey of pterosaurs from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia. Historical Biology 10:197-245 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
59166 F. M. Dalla Vecchia, V. Riera, J. O. Oms, J. Dinares-Turell, R. Gaete and A. Galobart. 2013. The last pterosaurs: first record from the uppermost Maastrichtian of the Tremp Syncline (northern Spain). Acta Geologica Sinica 87(5):1198-1227 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
31032 D. M. Unwin and N. N. Bakhurina. 2000. Pterosaurs from Russia, Middle Asia and Mongolia. In M. J. Benton, M. A. Shishkin, D. M. Unwin, & E N. Kurichkin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia 420-433 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]