Burkhant (MNUFR) (Cretaceous to of Mongolia)

Also known as Achillobator type

Where: Dornogov, Mongolia (44.3° N, 109.9° E: paleocoordinates 46.6° N, 100.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Baynshire Formation, Cenomanian to Cenomanian (100.5 - 83.6 Ma)

• Baynshire Suite = Bayn Shire = Baynshiree. Cenomanian to Santonian date is based upon palaeomagnetic analyses (see Watabe et al. 2009)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; fine-grained, medium sandstone and gray mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1989

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. F. Hicks, D. L. Brinkman, D. J. Nichols and M. Watabe. 1999. Paleomagnetic and palynologic analyses of Albian to Santonian strata at Bayn Shireh, Burkhant, and Khuren Dukh, eastern Gobi Desert, Mongolia. Cretaceous Research 20:829-850 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55758: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.11.2005, edited by Richard Butler and Jonathan Tennant

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
"Gobiapalone orlovi" = Kuhnemys orlovi1
"Gobiapalone orlovi" = Kuhnemys orlovi1 Khosatzky 1976 softshell turtle
MPC 25/162 (HMNS 94-10-9), carapace (collected by JMJPE in 1994); MPC 25/160 (HMNS 96-12-21-25), partial skeleton (collected by JMJPE in 1996)
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Achillobator giganticus n. gen. n. sp.2
Achillobator giganticus n. gen. n. sp.2 Perle et al. 1999 maniraptoran
 Saurischia -
 Pterosauria - Azhdarchidae
Azhdarchidae indet.3 pterosaur
MPC−Nd100/302, four associated cervical vertebrae