Prof. Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitzky was the first to especially look for
and locate
Gondwana-type rich Permian fauna of terrestrial vertebrates (similar
to South African
Permian fauna) on nothern part of European Russia and excavate
it successfuly.
The main locality was on the bank Malaya Severnaya Dvina River
near a village named Sokolki in the Arkhangelsk Region.
(In the Russian Dinosaur
Exposition see Scutosaurus, Dicynodon,
Inostrancevia, Annatherapsidus,
Dvinia).
These are the greatest in number of Permian
amphibians and reptiles in the
collections of the Paleontological
Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
First descriptions of many of
these new forms were by Amalitzky.
Annatherapsidus
petri was named in honor of his wife and co-worker Anna Petrovna
Species first
described by Amalitzky:
Dvinosaurus prima
Dvinosaurus secundus
Dvinosaurus
tertius
Kotlassia prima
Kotlassia secunda
Annatherapsidus
petri
Dicynodon trautscholdi
Dvinia
prima
Gordonia annae
Gordonia rossica
Inostrancevia
alexandri
Oudenodon venyukovi
Pareiosaurus karpinskii
Pareiosaurus
elegans
Pareiosaurus horridus
Pareiosaurus tuberculatus
Venyukovia prima
Specimens
in the Russian Dinosaur Exposition first described by Dr. Amalitzky:
