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 | |
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.