Peski, Kolomna: Late Bathonian, Russian Federation
collected 1989–2001

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cycadopsida - Cycadales
Cycadales indet. Dumortier 1829
Polypodiopsida - Cyatheales - Cyatheaceae
Cyatheaceae indet. Kaulfuss 1827
Polypodiopsida - Gleicheniaceae
Coniferales
Bennettitales
Pinopsida - Pinales - Pinaceae
Peltaspermopsida - Peltaspermales
Peltaspermales indet. Delevoryas 1979
Actinopteri - Dapediidae
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes
Ptycholepiformes - Ptycholepididae
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Brachyopidae
cf. Gobiops sp. Shishkin 1991
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Caudata indet. Scopoli 1777
Reptilia
Neosuchia indet. Clark 1988
Pashchenko et al. 2018
PIN, no. 4767/8-10; listed as Goniopholis sp. in Sennikov et al. (2005)
4 specimens
"resembles Richardoestesia"
Pashchenko et al. 2018
Skutschas et al. 2022
PIN 4767/7, fragmentary left maxilla. One tooth (Figure 2A, B) was broken during the preparation of PIN 4767/7 and stored separately from the main specimen.
Reptilia - Cteniogenyidae
Pashchenko et al. 2018
Reptilia
Testudinata indet. (Oppel 1811)
150 individuals
    = Heckerochelys romani n. gen., n. sp. Sukhanov 2006
Sukhanov 2006
All available specimens belong to two collections: PIN 4561, including the holotype and more than 50 isolated shell plates and non-shell postcranial elements (collected in the tailings of the quarry in 1990-1996) and PIN 4719, including an incomplete carapace, parts of the skull, and non-shell postcrania of one individual (PIN 4719-1) and more than 100 isolated or partially articulated shell plates and their fragments (PIN 4719-2 – 4719-112)
Morganucodonta - Morganucodontidae
Lopatin and Averianov 2006
Right femur PIN 477411 (near-complete)
Dipnoi - Ceratodontidae
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Pashchenko et al. 2018
Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Callorhynchidae
Ischyodus cf. egertoni (Buckland 1835)
Pashchenko et al. 2018
unclassified
Coccolepididae
see common names

Geography
Country:Russian Federation State/province:Moskva
Coordinates: 55.2° North, 38.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.8° North, 48.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:143 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Middle Jurassic
Stage: Bathonian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 4
Key time interval: Late Bathonian
Age range of interval: 168.2 - 165.3 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Moskovoretskaya Member:Meshchera
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: formation name = "Moscow River"
late Bathonian based on the pollen assemblage (Alekseev et al. 2001).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black,gray,green claystone
Secondary lithology:"cross stratification",yellow silty sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: two members: "The dark gray, black, or green member consists of clays and clayey siltstones with lenses of clayey gravel. The yellowish member consists of wavy- or cross-bedded sands with silty interbeds...The productive layer is composed of dark clay."
Environment:karst indet.
Geology comments: continental sediments infilling karstic topography, hollowed into underlying Middle Carboniferous limestone
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Size sorting:well
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:PIN
Collection dates:1989–2001
Metadata
Also known as:Kanev bor
Database number:52961
Authorizer:M. Carrano, R. Benson, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, G. Varnham, P. Mannion, R. Benson
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-08-29 14:26:59 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2005-08-29 14:26:59
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
14308.ETE V. R. Alifanov and A. G. Sennikov. 2001. Discovery of dinosaur remains in a Moscow suburb. Doklady Earth Sciences 376(1):1-3 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

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]
44652 P. P. Gambaryan and A. O. Averianov. 2001. Femur of a morganucodontid mammal from the Middle Jurassic of Central Russia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 46(1):99-112 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]
17882ETE A. V. Lopatin and A. O. Averianov. 2006. Mesozoic mammals of Russia. 9th International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, Abstracts and Proceedings Volume 67-70 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
67241 D. I. Pashchenko, I. T. Kuzmin, A. G. Sennikov, P. P. Skutschas, and M. B. Efimov. 2018. On the Finding of Neosuchians (Neosuchia, Crocodyliformes) in the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) Deposits of the Moscow Region. Paleontological Journal 52(5):550-562 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
80934 P. P. Skutschas, A. G. Sennikov, E. V. Syromyatnikova, D. D. Vitenko, I. A. Parakhin, R. A. Bapinaev, and S. E. Evans. 2022. A lepidosauromorph specimen from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) Moskvoretskaya Formation of the Moscow Region, Russia. Historical Biology 34(3):566-570 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]
44010 V. B. Sukhanov. 2006. An archaic turtle, Heckerochelys romani gen. et sp. nov. from the Middle Jurassic of Moscow region, Russia. Fossil Turtle Researc 1:112-118 [R. Benson/R. Benson]