Nogon Tsav (PIN 3141) [SMPE/SMGE] (Cretaceous of Mongolia)

Also known as Nogoon Tsav, Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition, Ingenii-Khobur

Where: Bayankhongor, Mongolia (43.0° N, 99.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 88.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Beds of Nogon Tsav Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• possibly equivalent with Nemegt Formation; lower level at site

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray siliciclastic sediments

• "lower gray beds"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by SMPE/SMGE in 1969–1973; reposited in the PIN

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: S. M. Kurzanov. 1976. Noviy pozdnemelovoy karnozavr is Nogon-Tsava, Mongoliya [A new late Mesozoic carnosaur from Nogon-Tsav, Mongolia]. In N. N. Kramarenko, B. Luvsandansan, Y. I. Voronin, R. Barsbold, A. K. Rozhdestvensky, B. A. Trofimov & V. Y. Reshetov (eds.), Paleontology and Biostratigraphy of Mongolia. The Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition, Transactions 3:93-104 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91909: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.10.2009, edited by Philip Mannion and Jonathan Tennant

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Lindholmemydidae
Mongolemys sp.3 Khosatzky and Mlynarski 1971 turtle
PIN 4693-1
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet.1, "Gobiapalone breviplastra" = Kuhnemys breviplastra1
Trionychidae indet.1 softshell turtle
Shell fragments
"Gobiapalone breviplastra" = Kuhnemys breviplastra1 Danilov et al. 2014 softshell turtle
Partial carapace
 Loricata - Paralligatoridae
"Shamosuchus tersus n. sp." = Shamosuchus gradilifrons2
"Shamosuchus tersus n. sp." = Shamosuchus gradilifrons2 Konzhukova 1954 crocodilian
PIN 3141/501 - type (partial skull)
 Theropoda -
Therizinosauria indet. Russell 1997 coelurosaur
 Theropoda - Ornithomimidae
Ornithomimidae indet. Marsh 1890 ornithomimid
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Alioramus remotus n. gen. n. sp. Kurzanov 1976 tyrannosaurine
PIN 3141/1
Tarbosaurus sp. Maleev 1955 tyrannosaurid