Vakhnevo, Nikolsky District, Vologda Oblast
Vakhnevo (Russian: Вахнево) is a rural locality (a village) and the administrative center of Vakhnevskoye Rural Settlement, Nikolsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 175 as of 2002.[2]
Vakhnevo
Вахнево | |
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Village | |
Vakhnevo Vakhnevo | |
| Coordinates: 59°47′N 45°10′E[1] | |
| Country | Russia |
| Region | Vologda Oblast |
| District | Nikolsky District |
| Time zone | UTC+3:00 |
Geography
Vakhnevo is located 37 km northwest of Nikolsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Turino is the nearest rural locality.[3]
Paleontology
Fossils of tetrapods were found in the Lower Triassic (Rybinskian horizon of Lower Olenekian) deposits of Vakhnevo. A parareptile Tichvinskia jugensis is known by the skull fragment with lower jaw.[4] In addition, temnospondyl amphibians Benthosuchus sushkini (one specimen is also assigned to Rhinesuchus wolgo-dwinensis) and Thoosuchus sp. were found in these deposits of Vakhnevo.[5] A specimen of reptiliomorph Dromotectus spinosum (sic) is collected from the same sites.[5]
References
- Деревня Вахнево на карте
- Данные переписи 2002 года: таблица 2С. М.: Федеральная служба государственной статистики, 2004.
- Расстояние от Никольска до Вахнева
- P. S. Spencer, M. J. Benton. Procolophonids from the Permo-Triassic of Russia (in The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia) (PDF). Cambridge University Press. p. 167. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 9, 2023.
- Novikov A.V. (2018). Early Triassic amphibians of Eastern Europe: evolution of dominant groups and peculiarities of changing communities (PDF) (in Russian). Moscow: RAS. p. 270-271. ISBN 978-5-906906-71-7. "Archive copy" (PDF). 2023-08-12.