Also known as Lipovaya Balka

Where: Volgograd, Russian Federation (49.3° N, 43.7° E: paleocoordinates 25.8° N, 40.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lipovskaya Formation, Olenekian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• Lower Triassic, equivalent of Yarengian Gorizont, Lipovskaya Svita (Novikov, 1991, Paleont. Zh. 1991(2)).

•Lipovskaya Svita, Gamian Gorizont, Yarengian Supergorizont, Upper Olenekian Substage, Olenekian Stage, Lower Triassic (Arkhangelskii & Sennikov, 2008).

•The Yarengian is uppermost Olenekian according to fig. 2 in Tverdokhlebov et al. (2003, Earth Sci. Rev. 60).

•Chronostratigraphy originally entered as >>Early/Lower Triassic<< is rendered more precisely according to data given above.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: M. F. Ivakhnenko. 1973. New Cisuralian cotylosaurs. Paleontological Journal 7(2):247-249 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/T. Liebrecht] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27343: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 02.12.2002, edited by Torsten Liebrecht, Richard Butler and Jonathan Tennant

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