EUROPEAN RUSSIA
VOLGOGRAD REGION
ZHIRNOVSKII DISTRICT
VERKHNAYA DOBRINKA
P. ELATMAE ZONE
LOWER CALLOVIAN STAGE
DOGGER EPOCH
MIDDLE JURASSIC
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904
INFRACLASS: EURYAPSIDA COLBERT, 1945
SUPERORDER: SAUROPTERYGIA OWEN 1860
GRANDORDER: EOSAUROPTERYGIA emend RIEPPEL, 1994
ORDER: PLESIOSAURIA OWEN, 1840 NON BLAINVILLE, 1835
SUBORDER: PLESIOSAURIA OWEN, 1840 NON BLAINVILLE, 1835
INFRAORDER: PLIOSAUROMORPHA NOVA
Superfamily: PLIOSAUROIDEA Seeley, 1874
Family: RHOMALEOSAURIDAE NOPCSA, 1928
Gen. sp indet.
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EUROPEAN RUSSIA
VOLGOGRAD REGION
ZHIRNOVSKII DISTRICT
2 KM EAST OF THE VILLAGE OF MELOVATKA
MELOVATKA-3 LOCALITY
MELOVATSKAYA FORMATION
PHOSPHORITE HORIZON
MIDDLE CENOMANIAN STAGE
GALLIC SUBEPOCH
LOWERMOST GULF EPOCH
MIDDLE CRETACEOUS
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904
SUPERLEGION: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985
LEGION: ARCHOSAUROMORPHA HUENE, 1946
SUPERCOHORT: AVEMETATARSALIA BENTON, 1999
COHORT: PROLACERTIFORMES CAMP, 1945 NOVA
SUPERORDER: TAPINOPLATIA PETERS, 2000
GRANDORDER: CHARACIOPODA PETERS, 2000
MICRORDER: FENESTRASAURIA PETERS, 2000
ORDER: PTEROSAURIA KAUP, 1834
SUBORDER: EUPTERODACTYLOIDEA BENNETT, 1994
Superfamily: ORNITHOCHEIROIDEA Seeley, 1870 (sensu Seeley, 1891)
Family: ORNITHOCHEIRIDAE Seeley, 1870
Lonchodectes sp
Incertae sedis
Gen. sp indet.
CLASS: AVES LINNAEUS, 1758
SUBCLASS: SAURORNITHES NICHOLSON, 1879
AVEBREVICAUDA PAUL, 2001
INFRACLASS: ORNITHOTHORACES NOVA
LEGION: ORNITHURAE NOVA
COHORT: ENANTIORNITHES NOVA
Incertae sedis
*Cerebavis cenomanica
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