Wilczek Land (Triassic of Russian Federation)

Where: Nenets, Russian Federation (80.4° N, 59.7° E: paleocoordinates 65.9° N, 7.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wilczek Formation, Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• stratigraphic assignment "based on the teeth of the fish Saurichthys sp."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; siltstone

• "represented by terrigenous deposits (sandstone, siltstone, silt, claystone)"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. P. Karnoushenko in 1995

Primary reference: A. G. Sennikov and M. S. Arkhangelsky. 2010. On a typical Jurassic sauropterygian from the Upper Triassic of Wilczek Land (Franz Josef Land, Arctic Russia). Paleontological Journal 44(5):567-572 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 103802: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 02.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Alexeyisaurus karnoushenkoi n. gen. n. sp. Sennikov and Arkhangelsky 2010 elasmosaur
SGU, no. 104a/36 = PMGRE n. 3658
Osteichthyes
 Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae
Saurichthys sp. Agassiz 1834 ray-finned fish