Buzuluksky District () is an administrativeLaw #1370/276-IV-OZ and municipalLaw #2367/495-IV-OZ district (

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), one of the thirty-five in

Orenburg Oblast Orenburg Oblast (also Orenburzhye) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), mainly located in Eastern Europe. Its administrative center is the city of Orenburg. From 1938 to 1957, it bore the name Chkalov Oblast in honor of Valery Chkal ...

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. It is located in the west of the

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. The area of the district is . Its

administrative center An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located. In countries with French as the administrative language, such as Belgiu ...

is the

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of Buzuluk (which is not administratively a part of the district).Resolution #4-p Population: 31,071 ( 2010 Census);

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Buzuluksky District is one of the thirty-five in the oblast. The

of Buzuluk serves as its

, despite being incorporated separately as an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Buzuluksky Municipal District. The Town of Buzuluk is incorporated separately from the district as Buzuluk Urban Okrug.

Paleontology

In the Lower

Triassic The Triassic ( ; sometimes symbolized 🝈) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya. The Triassic is t ...

of Buzuluksky District

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temnospondyls Temnospondyli (from Greek τέμνειν, ''temnein'' 'to cut' and σπόνδυλος, ''spondylos'' 'vertebra') or temnospondyls is a diverse ancient order of small to giant tetrapods—often considered primitive amphibians—that flourished wo ...

and primitive

reptiliomorphs Reptiliomorpha (meaning reptile-shaped; in PhyloCode known as ''Pan-Amniota'') is a clade containing the amniotes and those tetrapods that share a more recent common ancestor with amniotes than with living amphibians (lissamphibians). It was defi ...

were found. Extinct taxa of the

Induan The Induan is the first age of the Early Triassic epoch in the geologic timescale, or the lowest stage of the Lower Triassic series in chronostratigraphy. It spans the time between 251.9 Ma and 249.9 Ma (million years ago). The Induan is so ...

stage are ''

Selenocara ''Selenocara'' is an extinct genus of Mastodonsauroidea, mastodonsauroid temnospondyl. The type species is ''Selenocara groenlandica'', described by Gunnar Säve-Söderbergh in 1935 on the basis of skull bones from the Lower Triassic Wordie Cree ...

'', ''

Tupilakosaurus ''Tupilakosaurus'' is an extinct genus of dvinosaurian temnospondyl within the family Tupilakosauridae. Two species are known: *''Tupilakosaurus heilmani'' Nielsen, 1954 — Wordie Creek Formation, Greenland *''Tupilakosaurus wetlugensis'' Sh ...

'', '' Syrtosuchus'' and ''

Axitectum ''Axitectum'' is an extinct genus of bystrowianid chroniosuchians from lower Triassic deposits of Nizhni Novgorod and Kirov Regions, Russia. It was a rather large animal judging by the size of its vertebrae. The back was covered in bands of hig ...

''. Younger animals from the Lower

Olenekian In the geologic timescale, the Olenekian is an age (geology), age in the Early Triassic epoch (geology), epoch; in chronostratigraphy, it is a stage (stratigraphy), stage in the Lower Triassic series (stratigraphy), series. It spans the time betw ...

are ''

Benthosuchus ''Benthosuchus'' (meaning "deep water crocodile") is an extinct genus of temnospondyli, temnospondyl amphibian from the Early Triassic of Russia. It was primarily aquatic, living in rivers and lakes. Multiple species are known, with the largest ...

'', ''

Wetlugasaurus ''Wetlugasaurus'' (meaning "Vetluga River lizard") is an extinct genus of temnospondyl from the Early Triassic (Olenekian) Charkabozh, Kzylsaiskaya, Petropavlovka, Kamennyi Yar and Vetluga Series Formations of northern Russia and Greenland. ...

'', ''

Trematotegmen ''Trematotegmen'' is an extinct genus of trematosaurian temnospondyl within the family Trematosauridae. Phylogeny ''Trematotegmen'' in a cladogram after Novikov (2018) with only Early Triassic Eastern Europe taxa included: See also * Prehis ...

'', ''

Thoosuchus ''Thoosuchus'' (meaning "active crocodile") is an extinct genus of basal trematosauroid trematosaurian temnospondyl. Fossils have been found from Russia and date back to the Early Triassic. It is the type genus of the family Thoosuchidae, form ...

'', ''

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'', ''

Angusaurus ''Angusaurus'' is an extinct genus of trematosaurian temnospondyl within the family Trematosauridae. Phylogeny ''Angusaurus'' in a cladogram after Novikov (2018) with only Early Triassic Eastern Europe taxa included: See also * Prehistoric ...

'', ''

Dromotectum ''Dromotectum'' is an extinct genus of bystrowianid chroniosuchians from the Late Permian of China and Early Triassic of Russia. Two species have been named: the type species ''D. spinosum'' and the species ''D. largum''. ''D. spinosum'', the fi ...

'', ''Selenocara'', ''

Prothoosuchus ''Prothoosuchus'' is an extinct genus of trematosaurian temnospondyl within the family Thoosuchidae. Phylogeny ''Prothoosuchus'' in a cladogram after Novikov (2018) with only Early Triassic Eastern Europe taxa included: See also * Prehisto ...

'' and probably ''Tupilakosaurus''.

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