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First Find of Reptiles in the Nearshore Marine Lower Triassic of the Bolshoe Bogdo Mountain (Peri-Caspian Depression)

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Revised and new data on vertebrates (fishes, temnospondyl amphibians, and reptiles) from the Lower Triassic of the Bolshoe Bogdo Mountain (Peri-Caspian Depression), as well as the history of their finds, are presented. Terrestrial reptile remains are described for the first time from this section; a parietal fragment, from the nearshore marine Bogdo Formation is provisionally assigned to an archosaur of the family Erythrosuchidae.

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  1. The genus name was proposed by Ochev and Shishkin instead of the pre-occupied Parotosaurus.

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This study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (projects nos. 20-05-00092-a, 20-04-00070-a, and 20-04-00545-a). The photograph was taken by S.V. Bagirov (Borissiak Paleontological Institute).

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Novikov, I.V., Sennikov, A.G. & Uliakhin, A.V. First Find of Reptiles in the Nearshore Marine Lower Triassic of the Bolshoe Bogdo Mountain (Peri-Caspian Depression). Paleontol. J. 56, 583–589 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030122050100

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