Karpovka (Paleocene of Russian Federation)

Where: Volgograd, Russian Federation (48.7° N, 44.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.4° N, 38.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Saratov beds Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphatic, gray, green sandstone

• Green-gray quartz-glauconite sands with phosphorites

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate, replaced with silica

Collected by A. A. Yarkov in 1990

• Material deposited at 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 198239: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 10.12.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines -
Testudines indet.
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet.
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle
 Testudines - Toxochelyidae
Osteopyginae indet.
Osteopyginae indet. Zangerl 1953 sea turtle