Where: Ulyanovsk, Russian Federation (54.5° N, 48.4° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 41.3° N, 59.5° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Speetoniceras versicolor ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Hauterivian (132.6 - 125.8 Ma)
• Upper portion of the Speetoniceras versicolor Zone, upper Hauterivian, Lower Cretaceous on the right bank of the Volga river. The horizon is level g-5 in local stratigraphy
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, nodular, phosphatic, pyritic shale and lithified siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate, replaced with pyrite
Collected by G.N. Uspensky and colleagues in 2002
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), chemical, mechanical, ,
Primary reference: V. Fischer, R. B. J. Benson, N. G. Zverkov, L. C. Soul, M. S. Arkhangelsky, OLambert, I. M. Stenshin, G. N. Uspensky, and P. S. Druckenmiller. 2017. Plasticity and convergence in the evolution of short-necked plesiosaurs. Current Biology 27:1-10 [V. Fischer/V. Fischer]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 185940: authorized by Valentin Fischer, entered by Valentin Fischer on 25.05.2017
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Luskhan itilensis n. gen. n. sp.
Luskhan itilensis n. gen. n. sp. Fischer et al. 2017 plesiosaur |