Also known as Shar-Teg, Shar Teeg, Shar Teg, PIN Loc. 4174
Where: Govi-Altay, Mongolia (44.1° N, 95.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 98.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ulan Malgait Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)
• = Tormkhon horizon
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, calcareous sandstone and brown, gray siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by SMPE in 1989
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: Y. M. Gubin and S. M. Sinitza. 1996. Shar Teg: a unique Mesozoic locality of Asia. In M. Morales (ed.), The Continental Jurassic. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 60:311-318 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 179180: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.06.2016, edited by Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle | |
Sunosuchus shartegensis n. sp.
Sunosuchus shartegensis n. sp. Efimov 1988 crocodilian PIN 4174/1 - type (partial skull and jaws) (not 4171/1)
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Adzhosuchus fuscus n. gen. n. sp.1 Efimov et al. 2000 crocodilian PIN 4174/5, partial skull and jaws (holotype)
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