Teete (PIN Loc. 4874) (Cretaceous to of Russian Federation)

Also known as Botomoiu River; Teete Creek; Kempendyay, Teteh

Where: Sakha, Russian Federation (62.7° N, 117.6° E: paleocoordinates 66.5° N, 110.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Batylykh Formation (Sangar Group), Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 125.0 Ma)

• Sangar Series

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; calcareous sandstone

• "lacustrine alluvial genesis...located on the lake-alluvial plain on the western coast of the Lena Sea, which occupied a large part of Eastern Siberia."
• "composed of sand and calcareous sandstones"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Tolmachoff, Nessov, Skutchas, Schellhorn, Vitenko in 1904, 1988, 2002–2007, 2017–2018; reposited in the PIN

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

Primary reference: I. P. Tolmachoff. 1904. Neue Funde zur Geologie Sibiriens [New discoveries about the geology of Siberia]. Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 1904(1):233-234 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 32313: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.06.2003, edited by Philip Mannion and Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Reptilia refers to "small-sized reptiles"; no further data given
unclassified
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Ginkgocycadophytus
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Ginkgocycadophytus sp.6 Samoilovitch 1953
Bryopsida
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Lycopodiopsida
 Selaginellales - Selaginellaceae
Selaginella sp.6 Beauvois 1804 spikemoss
Selaginella velata6 spikemoss
Tripartina variabilis
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Tripartina variabilis6 Maljavikina 1949
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Pinaceae indet.6 Rudolphi 1830
Pinus sp.6 Linnaeus 1753 pine
Picea sp.6 Dietrich 1824 spruce
Pteridopsida
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Leiotriletes sp.6 Potonie and Kremp 1954
Polypodiopsida
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
Klukisporites sp.6 Couper 1958
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet.6 Linnaeus 1758 clam
"At least four bivalve and gastropod species"
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.6 Cuvier 1795 snail
"At least four bivalve and gastropod species"
Osteichthyes
 Chondrostei -
Chondrostei indet.6 ray-finned fish
Reptilia
  -
Reptilia indet.7 Laurenti 1768 reptile
 Saurischia -
Macronaria indet.4 Sereno 1997 sauropod
PIN 4874/7
 Ornithischia -
Ornithischia indet.1 Seeley 1888 ornithischian
Ankylosauria indet.8 ankylosaur
PIN 4874/5
Ornithopoda indet.1 Marsh 1881 ornithopod
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.5 Marsh 1881 theropod
PIN 4874/2
Coelurosauria indet.7 coelurosaur
PIN 4874/3
 Choristodera -
Khurendukhosaurus sp.6 Sigogneau-Russell and Efimov 1984 choristodere
 Testudinata -
Mesochelydia indet.10 Joyce 2017 turtle
basisphenoid ZIN PH 1/249, and additional shell and skeleton fragments
 Squamata -
Lacertilia indet.6 Owen 1842 lizard
Mammalia
 Allotheria -
Cryoharamiya tarda n. gen. n. sp.3
Cryoharamiya tarda n. gen. n. sp.3 Averianov et al. 2020 mammal
PIN 5614/4
 Eutriconodonta -
Sangarotherium aquilonium n. gen. n. sp.2
Sangarotherium aquilonium n. gen. n. sp.2 Averianov et al. 2018 mammal
PIN 5614/3 - holotype
Osteichthyes
 Cynodontia -
Docodonta indet.2 Kretzoi 1946 dodocont
PIN 5614/7
 Docodonta - Tegotheriidae
Khorotherium yakutensis n. gen. n. sp.2
Khorotherium yakutensis n. gen. n. sp.2 Averianov et al. 2018 dodocont
PIN 5614/1 - holotype
 Therapsida - Tritylodontidae
Xenocretosuchus kolossovi6 Lopatin and Agadjanian 2008 mammaliamorph
Amphibia
 Caudata -
Caudata indet.6 salamander
Kulgeriherpeton ultimus n. gen. n. sp.9 Skutschas et al. 2018 salamander
ZIN PH 3/246 - holotype
 Salientia -
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae