Mnevniki (Ichthyosaur locality) (Jurassic of Russian Federation)

Where: Moskva, Russian Federation (55.8° N, 37.5° E: paleocoordinates 49.0° N, 40.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• Upper Volgian; stratigraphic interval Epivirgatites nikini - Kachparites fulgens

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; glauconitic, black sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. Trautschold in 1879

Primary reference: M. S. Arkhangelsky and N. G. Zverkov. 2014. On a new ichthyosaur of the genus Undurosaurus. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 318(5):187-196 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162726: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 02.10.2014

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Ophthalmosauridae
Undorosaurus trautscholdi n. sp. Arkhangelsky and Zverkov 2014 ichthyosaur
GSM 1503, partial left forefin