Malaya Rybka (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Where: Saratov, Russian Federation (51.2° N, 45.4° E: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 40.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rybushka Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by N.N. Iljin

Primary reference: N. V. Zelenkov, A. V. Panteleyev, and A. A. Yarkov. 2017. New finds of hesperornithids in the European Russia, with comments on the systematics of Eurasian Hesperornithidae. Paleontological Journal 51:547-555 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65036: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.09.2006, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Aves
 Hesperornithiformes - Hesperornithidae
Hesperornis "sp. 2" Marsh 1872 bird
ZIN, no. PO 6609