Augustaburiania
Augustaburiania Temporal range: Early Triassic,
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Family: | †Tanystropheidae |
Genus: | †Augustaburiania Sennikov, 2011 |
Type species | |
†Augustaburiania vatagini Sennikov, 2011
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Augustaburiania is an extinct genus of tanystropheid archosauromorph from the latest Early Triassic (late Olenekian stage) of Volgograd Region, western Russia. All specimens were recovered in the right slope of the Don River valley from the . It was named by Sennikov in 2011 and the type species is Augustaburiania vatagini. Augustaburiania is the oldest known tanystropheid.[1]
References[]
- ^ Sennikov, A. G. (2011). "New tanystropheids (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha) from the Triassic of Europe". Paleontological Journal. 45 (1): 90–104. doi:10.1134/S0031030111010151. S2CID 85193597.
Categories:
- Tanystropheids
- Prehistoric reptile genera
- Olenekian genera
- Early Triassic reptiles of Europe
- Triassic Russia
- Fossils of Russia
- Fossil taxa described in 2011
- Triassic reptile stubs