Nemegt, Western Sayr, site 8 [PMPE] (Cretaceous of Mongolia)

Also known as Polish-Mongolian Palaeontological Expeditions, Nem008

Where: Omnogov, Mongolia (43.5° N, 101.0° 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)

• middle part of "upper beds" = Nemegt Fm; "zone of Tarbosaurus bataar (Maleyev) and Saurolophus angustirostris Rozhdestvensky"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomerate and sandstone

• sands and gravels
• "yellowish sandstone, resting upon the 'unfossiliferous' red sandstone"; "upper sand with silt intercalations"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Z. Kielan-Jaworowska & PMPE in 1965

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: Z. Kielan-Jaworowska. 1966. Third (1965) Polish-Mongolian Palaeontological Expedition to the Gobi Desert and western Mongolia. Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Cl. II 14(4):249-252 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180473: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.07.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Homalocephale calathocercos n. gen. n. sp.
Homalocephale calathocercos n. gen. n. sp. Maryańska and Osmólska 1974 ornithischian
skull and partial postcranial skeleton of a new ornithischian dinosaur; "reminding one in some features [of] pachycephalosaurian dinosaurs"