Beloe Ozero, Bed 4 (SBO) (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Also known as Beloye Ozero

Where: Saratov, Russian Federation (51.2° N, 45.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 39.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rybushka Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• may have an "admixture of a redeposited Early Campanian fauna"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; nodular, phosphatic, silty sandstone

• "phosphoric interbed"; "phosphoritic nodules" in a silty sand

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A.V. Panteleev & E.V. Popov in 2003, 2005

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. V. Averianov and E. V. Popov. 2014. A pterosaurian vertebra from the Upper Cretaceous of the Saratov Region. Paleontological Journal 48(3):326-329 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 157353: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.06.2014, edited by Evangelos Vlachos and Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria -
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
 Testudines -
Panchelonioidea indet.1 Joyce et al. 2004 turtle
ZIN PH: 14/244, fragment of the right maxilla; 15/244, partial left postorbital; 16/244, partial neural; 17/244, anterior suprapygal; 18/244 and 19/244, pygals; 20e22/244, partial costals; 23e28/244, peripherals; 29/244, partial right scapula.
 Testudines - Protostegidae
Protostega gigas1 Cope 1871 sea turtle
ZIN PH: 1/244, left maxilla; 2/244, partial right maxilla; 3/244, right jugal; 4/244, ?partial right quadratojugal; 5/ 244, partial right squamosal; 6/244, neural; 7/244 and 8/244, bridge peripherals; 9/244, posterior peripheral; 10/244, fragment of the left hypoplastron; 11/244, fragment of the right scapula; 12/ 244, proximal fragment of the right humerus; 13/244, proximal fragment of the left humerus.
Actinopteri
 Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae
Enchodontidae indet. Woodward 1901
Chondrichthyes
 Chimaeriformes - Rhinochimaeridae
Amylodon karamysh Averianov and Popov 1995 chimaera
 Chimaeriformes - Edaphodontidae
Edaphodon sp. Buckland 1838 chimaera
 Chimaeriformes - Callorhynchidae
Ischyodus bifurcatus Case 1978 plownose chimaera
Elasmodus sp. Egerton plownose chimaera
 Elasmobranchii -
Elasmobranchii indet. elasmobranch
coprolites
 Rajiformes -
Squatirhina sp. Casier 1947 ray
 Lamniformes - Pseudocoracidae
Pseudocorax laevis Leriche 1906 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Eostriatolamia sp. Glikman 1980 sand tiger shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Cretalamna sp." = Cretolamna2
"Cretalamna sp." = Cretolamna2 Glikman 1958 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Archaeolamnidae
Archaeolamna kopingensis Davis 1890 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax kaupi Agassiz 1843 crow shark
 Squatiniformes - Squatinidae
Squatina hasei angel shark
 Heterodontiformes - Heterodontidae
Heterodontus sp. de Blainville 1816 bullhead shark