Also known as Kanev bor
Where: Moskva, Russian Federation (55.2° N, 38.8° E: paleocoordinates 48.8° N, 41.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Meshchera Member (Moskovoretskaya Formation), Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)
• formation name = "Moscow River"
•late Bathonian based on the pollen assemblage (Alekseev et al. 2001).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: karst; black, gray, green claystone and yellow, silty sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collected in 1989–2001; reposited in the PIN
Primary reference: V. R. Alifanov and A. G. Sennikov. 2001. Discovery of dinosaur remains in a Moscow suburb. Doklady Earth Sciences 376(1):1-3 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 52961: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.08.2005, edited by Philip Mannion, Grace Varnham and Roger Benson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Peltaspermopsida | |
Peltaspermales indet. Delevoryas 1979 | |
Cycadopsida | |
Cycadales indet. Dumortier 1829 cycads | |
Bennettitales | |
Bennettitales indet. Bessey 1910 | |
Pinopsida | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Cyatheaceae indet. Kaulfuss 1827 scaly tree fern | |
Gleicheniaceae indet. Presl | |
Osteichthyes | |
Ptycholepis sp. Agassiz 1832 ray-finned fish | |
Reptilia | |
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Neosuchia indet.2 Clark 1988 crocodilian PIN, no. 4767/8-10; listed as Goniopholis sp. in Sennikov et al. (2005)
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Lepidosauromorpha indet.3 Benton 1983 crown diapsid PIN 4767/7, fragmentary left maxilla. One tooth (Figure 2A, B) was broken during the preparation of PIN 4767/7 and stored separately from the main specimen.
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Heckerochelys romani n. gen. n. sp.4
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Osteichthyes | |
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Amphibia | |
Caudata indet. salamander | |
cf. Gobiops sp. Shishkin 1991 tetrapod | |
Osteichthyes | |
Ceratodus segnis lungfish | |
Actinopteri | |
Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832 gar | |
Dapediidae indet. Cope 1877 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
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Coccolepididae | |
Coccolepididae indet. Berg 1940 |