Bakhar (Jurassic to of Mongolia)

Where: Bayan-Khongor, Mongolia (45.0° N, 99.0° E: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 102.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Bakkar Formation, Aalenian to Aalenian (174.1 - 168.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; claystone

• Inland basin, more than 1000 km from coastline
• "thinly bedded clays"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. G Ponomarenko in 1982; reposited in the PIN

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: N. N. Bakhurina and D. M. Unwin. 1995. a survey of pterosaurs from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia. Historical Biology 10:197-245 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 92017: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 27.10.2009

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes -
Reptilia
 Pterosauria - Anurognathidae
Anurognathidae indet. Nopcsa 1928 pterosaur
Part of a humerus, carpal & complete metacarpus
unclassified
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Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Insecta
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Insecta indet. Linnaeus 1758 insect