Also known as Tuskari

Where: Kursk, Russian Federation (51.9° N, 36.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 32.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sekmenevsk Formation, Albian to Albian (113.0 - 93.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified, phosphatic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: there are also bones of Neogene-Quaternary ungulate mammals

Primary reference: W. Kiprianow. 1883. Studien über die Fossilen Reptilien Russlands. IV. Theil. Ordnung Crocodilina Oppel. Indeterminirte Fossile Reptilien. [Studies on Russian fossil reptiles. Part IV. Order Crocodilina Oppel. Indeterminate fossil reptiles]. Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg, VIIe série 31(7):1-29 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 58587: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 15.02.2006

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