Rasstrigin 1 (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Where: Volgograd, Russian Federation (49.4° N, 45.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 38.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Reworked

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: A. S. Schulp, A. O. Averianov, A. A. Yarkov, F. A. Trikolidi, and J. W. M. Jagt. 2006. First record of the Late Cretaceous durophagous mosaasaur Carinodens belgicus (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from Volgogradskaya Oblast (Russia) and Crimea (Ukraine). Russian Journal of Herpetology 213(3):175-180 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142788: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 16.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines -
Osteichthyes
 Acipenseriformes - Acipenseridae
cf. Acipenser gigantissimus Nessov 1997 sturgeon
Chondrichthyes
 Chimaeriformes - Edaphodontidae