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Vakhnevo, Nikolsky District, Vologda Oblast

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Vakhnevo
Вахнево
Village
Vakhnevo is located in Vologda Oblast
Vakhnevo
Vakhnevo
Vakhnevo is located in Russia
Vakhnevo
Vakhnevo
Coordinates: 59°47′N 45°10′E / 59.783°N 45.167°E / 59.783; 45.167[1]
CountryRussia
RegionVologda Oblast
DistrictNikolsky District
Time zoneUTC+3:00

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]

Geography

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Vakhnevo is located 37 km northwest of Nikolsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Turino is the nearest rural locality.[3]

Paleontology

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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

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  1. ^ Деревня Вахнево на карте
  2. ^ Данные переписи 2002 года: таблица 2С. М.: Федеральная служба государственной статистики, 2004.
  3. ^ Расстояние от Никольска до Вахнева
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ a b 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.