Where: Volgograd, Russian Federation (50.9° N, 44.7° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 45.8° N, 56.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Melovatka Formation, Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Lower part of formation - "phosphorite horizon". Actually two close but separate horizons that merge in places into a single horizon

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary, pebbly, brown, blue, sandy phosphorite and yellow sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, concretion

Collected in 1993; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: A. O. Averianov, E. N. Kurochkin, E. M. Pervushov and A. V. Ivanov. 2005. Two bone fragments of ornithocheiroid pterosaurs from the Cenomanian of Volgograd Region, southern Russia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 50(2):289-294 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92399: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 10.11.2009, edited by Matthew Carrano

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