Wet fossils: some paleontological finds of the last field season

Brief information on the most interesting of the recent paleontological finds is given. The well-preserved huge shell of the bivalve mollusk Camptonectes imperials and a giant ammonite of the genus Speetoniceras were found in the Lower Cretaceous deposits of North Timan. In South Timan, a new locality of vertebrate fossils has been discovered in the Sosnogorsk Formation outcrop. The excavated Late Devonian ichthyofaunal assemblage contains at least one new taxon, a bothriolepidid antiarchan fish. Three plesiosaur vertebrae were collected from the Sysola District by a local resident. The bones may belong to a single individual and come from the middle Middle Jurassic deposits, which are poorly known worldwide for the marine reptile remains. What all of these specimens have in common is that they were found from underwater.