Nemegt, Western Sayr [HMNS-GIN] (Cretaceous of Mongolia)

Where: Omnogov, Mongolia (43.5° N, 101.1° E: paleocoordinates 41.2° N, 90.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nemegt Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, soft parts

Collected by HMNS-GIN in 1992–1993

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• HMNS-Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences. Skeleton observed in 1992 but was destroyed by 1993.

Primary reference: M. Watabe and S. Suzuki. 2000. Report on the Japan–Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1993. Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin 1:17-29 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 168809: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.04.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Saurolophus sp. Brown 1912 hadrosaurine
skull; 930928 NG W-Sayr
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Tarbosaurus sp. Maleev 1955 tyrannosaurid
skeleton