Sterlitamak - Melosaurus uralensis site: Ufimian - Late Kazanian, Russian Federation
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Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Archegosauridae
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Melosaurus uralensis n. sp.
Meyer 1857
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| MB 334 (holotype) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Russian Federation | State/province: | Bashkortostan | County: | Sterlitamak |
| Coordinates: | 53.7° North, 55.8° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 27.7° North, 47.4° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Cisuralian - Guadalupian |
| Stage: | Kungurian - Roadian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 2 - Permian 3 |
| Key time interval: | Ufimian - Late Kazanian | Other zone: | Parabradysaurus silantjevi |
| Age range of interval: | 276.5 - 266.9 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Golyusherma Subassemblage of the Ocher Assemblage; terminal part of the Ufimian to the early part of the Late Kazanian (Golubev 2000). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | brown lithified sandstone |
| Lithology description: "hard, bright, liver brown" matrix and apparently bad-smelling. | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Museum für Naturkunde of the Berlin University | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Meyer 1860 assigned Melosaurus uralensis to Melosauridae Fritsch. M. uralensis is referred to the family Archsgosauridae by Gartman-Veinberg (Hartmann-Weinberg) 1938.
Authority for Melosaurus is Meyer 1857. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Sterlitamack, Sterlitamack'schen, copper mine | ||
| Database number: | 37065 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | R. Whatley |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-02-27 15:58:58 | Last modified: | 2017-12-04 07:03:56 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-02-27 15:58:58 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9939. | H. v. Meyer. 1860. Melosaurus uralensis aus dem permischen System des westlichen Urals. Palaeontographica 7(2):90-98 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/T. Liebrecht] |
Secondary references:
| 9938 | 5% 47380 | A. Gartman-Veinberg (Hartmann-Weinberg). 1938. Melosaurus uralensis H. v. Meyer, an upper Permian archegosaurid. Problems Paleont. (Moscow, Univ., Lab. Pal., Pub.) 5:7-31 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/J. Alroy] |
| 63997 | V. K. Golubev. 2000. The Faunal Assemblages of Permian Terrestrial Vertebrates from Eastern Europe. Paleontological Journal 34:S211-S224 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |