Ozinsky No. 1 oil shale mine, left Volga bank (Zavolzh'e): Late/Upper Tithonian, Russian Federation
collected 1945
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Pliosauridae
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Pliosaurus cf. grandis
(Owen 1840)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PIN 2440/1 (enormous rostrum) | ||||||||||
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= Liopleurodon rossicus
Novozhilov 1948
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Halstead 1971 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Pliosaurus rossicus | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Russian Federation | State/province: | Saratov |
| Coordinates: | 51.2° North, 49.6° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 45.9° North, 52.1° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Stage: | Tithonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Tithonian | Zone: | Perisphinctes panderi |
| Age range of interval: | 146.30000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Within the zone of Perisphinctes panderi, which is referred to the Lower Volga Stage of the Upper Jurassic |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "shale" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | May 1945 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Ozink | ||
| Database number: | 127456 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Benson | Enterer: | R. Benson |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-05-15 02:26:05 | Last modified: | 2018-01-11 15:44:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-05-15 02:26:05 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 41506. | A. Rozhdestvensky. 1947. A new finding of a huge pliosaur from the Trans-Volga region. Comptes Rendus (Doklady) de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS 56(2):197-199 [R. Benson/R. Benson] |
Secondary references:
| 41508 | L. B. Halstead. 1971. Liopleurodon rossicus (Novozhilov)—a pliosaur from the Lower Volgian of the Moscow Basin. Palaeontology 14(4):566-570 [R. Benson/R. Benson] | |
| 41485 | G. W. Storrs, M. S. Arkhangel'skii, and V. M. Efimov. 2000. Mesozoic marine reptiles of Russia and other former Soviet republics. In M. J. Benton, M. A. Shishkin, D. M. Unwin, E. N. Kurochkin (eds.), The age of dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia 187-210 [R. Benson/R. Benson] |