Chukhonastovka (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Where: Volgograd, Russian Federation (49.8° N, 45.1° E: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 39.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. A. Yarkov in 1984 - 1985

• Material deposited in ZISP, Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg

Primary reference: A. O. Averianov and A. A. Yarkov. 2000. Some turtle remains from the Cretaceous and Paleogene of Volgograd Region, Russia. Russian Journal of Herpetology 7(2):161-166 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198238: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 10.12.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Protostegidae
Teguliscapha sp. Nessov sea turtle
ZISP 1/22, 2/22, costal and peripheral plate