Also known as Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition, Khamareen Us, Gashunu-Chuduk, Khamryn-Us, Gashun-Khuduk, Gashuuny Khudag
Where: Dornogov, Mongolia (43.9° N, 111.4° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 107.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Dzunbain Formation, Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• 60 m thick strata - called Chuchtuksk = Khukhtyk = Dzunbain = Dzunbayn = Zuunbayan Formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; ferruginous, brown, gray, green claystone and gray, yellow sandstone
•"grayish-yellow sandstone"
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Collected by SMPE in 1971, 1977, 1981
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: N. N. Kalandadze and S. M. Kurzanov. 1974. Nizhnemelove mestonakhozhdeniya nazemnykh pozvonochnykh Mongolii [Lower Cretaceous terrestrial vertebrate localities of Mongolia]. In N. N. Kramarenko, B. Luvsandansan, Yu. I. Voronin, R. Barsbold, A. K. Rozhdestve (eds.), Mesozoic and Cenozoic Faunas and Biostratigraphy of Mongolia. The Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition, Transactions 1:288-295 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 32362: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.06.2003, edited by Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Shamosaurus scutatus n. gen. n. sp.3
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