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Augustaburiania

Augustaburiania
Temporal range: Early Triassic, 251–247 Ma
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauromorpha
Family: Tanystropheidae
Genus: Augustaburiania
Sennikov, 2011
Type species
Augustaburiania vatagini
Sennikov, 2011

Augustaburiania is an extinct genus of tanystropheid archosauromorph from the latest Early Triassic (late Olenekian age) of Volgograd Region, western Russia. All specimens were recovered in the right slope of the Don River valley from the Lipovskaya Formation. It was named by Sennikov in 2011 and the type species is Augustaburiania vatagini. Augustaburiania is the oldest known tanystropheid.[1]

References

  1. ^ Sennikov, A. G. (2011). "New tanystropheids (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha) from the Triassic of Europe". Paleontological Journal. 45 (1): 90–104. Bibcode:2011PalJ...45...90S. doi:10.1134/S0031030111010151. S2CID 85193597.


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