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AUGUSTABURIANIA
(or-gus-tah-bu-re-ahn-e-ah)
Named By: A. G. Sennikov in 2012
Time Period: Early Triassic, Olenekian
Location: Russia - Lipovskaya Formation
Size: Uncertain due to lack of remains
Diet: Carnivore/Piscivore
Fossil(s): Partial post cranial remains including cervical (neck) vertebrae
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Protorosauria | Tanystropheidae |
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Augustaburiania is an extinct genus of tanystropheid protorosaur from the latest Early Triassic (late Olenekian stage) 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.

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