Khermin Tsav, Bird's Hill (PIN coll. 4492) [SMPE] (Cretaceous to of Mongolia)

Also known as Khermeen Tsav

Where: Omnogov, Mongolia (43.2° N, 99.5° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 89.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Baruungoyot Formation, Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by SMPE; reposited in the PIN

• Borissiak Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (PIN)

Primary reference: E. N. Kurochkin, S. Chatterjee, and K. E. Mikhailov. 2013. An emryonic enantiornithine bird and associated eggs from the Cretaceous of Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 47(11):1252-1269 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153543: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 27.12.2013, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Enantiornithes indet.
Holotype: PIN, no. 4492/3, partial skeleton (skull, part of the vertebral column, shoulder girdle, forelimb) of an embryo
Aves
 Enantiornithes -
Gobipipus reshetovi n. gen. n. sp.
Gobipipus reshetovi n. gen. n. sp. Kurochkin et al. 2013 bird
Holotype: PIN, no. 4492/3, partial skeleton (skull, part of the vertebral column, shoulder girdle, forelimb) of an embryo