Review of locations of mesozoic reptiles in Eastern Russia and some new finds

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The article provides an overview of more than 80 of all known locations of Mesozoic reptiles in eastern Russia, discovered over the last hundred-plus years. Since the beginning of the new millennium, the increase in new data and finds of dinosaurs in the regions of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Transbaikal Territory, Buryatia, Amur Region and ichthyosaurs in the north of Siberia, Chukotka and Southern Primorye has increased significantly. Further searches in these and newly discovered locations will allow paleontologists to form a more detailed picture of the organic world of the ancient Mesozoic eras and give more accurate systematic definitions of representatives of the class Reptilia.

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Liana G. Bondarenko

Far East Geological Institute, FEB RAS

Author for correspondence.
Email: li_bond@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1383-9986

Candidate of Sciences in Geology and Mineralogy, Senior Researcher

Russian Federation, Vladivostok

Olga P. Smyshlyaeva

Far East Geological Institute, FEB RAS

Email: olgasmysh@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8029-8315

Candidate of Sciences in Geology and Mineralogy, Senior Researcher

Russian Federation, Vladivostok

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2. Fig. 1. Mesozoic reptile locations in Eastern Russia.

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3. Fig. 2. Finds of marine reptile ribs in the Middle Triassic deposits of Russky Island in Southern Primorye. a – Reptilia indet. cf. Ichthyopterygia A, Bogdanovich Bay; b – Reptilia indet. cf. Ichthyosauria B, Mys Vyatlina; c – diagram of the ichthyosaur skeleton

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4. Fig. 3. Amurosaurus riabinini Bolotsky et Kurzanov, 1991 from the Blagoveshchenskoye Upper Cretaceous locality. a – sculpture of an Amurosaurus on the embankment of the Amur River near the locality; b – diagram of the skeleton of Amurosaurus riabinini; c, d – caudal vertebra (c – side view, d – back view)

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