Augustaburiania
Encyclopedia
Augustaburiania is an extinct genus
of tanystropheid archosauromorph which lived during the lower Triassic of what is now Eastern Europe
. It is recovered from the Don River Basin
in western Russia
. It was named by Sennikov in 2011
and the type species
is Augustaburiania vatagini. Augustaburiania is the oldest known tanystropheid.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of tanystropheid archosauromorph which lived during the lower Triassic of what is now Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
. It is recovered from the Don River Basin
Don River (Russia)
The Don River is one of the major rivers of Russia. It rises in the town of Novomoskovsk 60 kilometres southeast from Tula, southeast of Moscow, and flows for a distance of about 1,950 kilometres to the Sea of Azov....
in western Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
. It was named by Sennikov in 2011
2011 in paleontology
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and the type species
Type species
In biological nomenclature, a type species is both a concept and a practical system which is used in the classification and nomenclature of animals and plants. The value of a "type species" lies in the fact that it makes clear what is meant by a particular genus name. A type species is the species...
is Augustaburiania vatagini. Augustaburiania is the oldest known tanystropheid.