Toosgot sub-locality, Abdrant Nuru (Cretaceous of Mongolia)

Where: Omngov, Mongolia (44.5° N, 103.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 92.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Djadokhta Formation, Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• upper part of local section, unnamed beds - assigned to Djadokhta Formation in Suzuki et al. 2004

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; fine-grained, medium, concretionary, red sandstone and sandstone

• "probably fluvial, with braided river system"
• "red fine sandstones with white concretions and intercalations of coarse sand and granule layers. The nests were buried in poorly sorted red fine to medium grained sandstone, and very fine sandstone layer underlying the former layer.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by HMNS-GIN in 1996–1998, 2000

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

• discovered 5 September 1996 by joint Hayashibura Museum of Natural Science-Mongolian Paleontological Center Joint Paleontological Expedition Team (HMNS-MPC-JPE); fieldwork in August 1997 and July 1998

Primary reference: S. Suzuki and M. Watabe. 2000. Report on the Japan–Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1998. Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin 1:83-98 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 100261: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.12.2010, edited by Roger Benson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.3 theropod
teeth, dorsal vertebrae, articulated caudals; 970811 AN SZK Theropod
 Theropoda - Dendroolithidae
Dendroolithidae indet. Zhao and Li 1988 coelurosaur
2 nests, 980720 AN-E Nest-I, Nest-II; many eggshells
 Theropoda - Elongatoolithidae
Elongatoolithidae indet. Zhao 1975 theropod
 Theropoda - Laevisoolithidae
? Laevisoolithidae indet.2 Mikhailov 1991 theropod
(incl. Subtilioolithidae)
 Ornithischia - Spheroolithidae
Spheroolithidae indet. Zhao 1979 ornithopod
 Ornithischia - Protoceratopsidae
Protoceratops sp.3 Granger and Gregory 1923 ceratopsian
tooth
 Ornithischia -
Ankylosauria indet.3 Osborn 1923 ankylosaur
partial skeleton; 970812 AN WTB Ankylo, 970811 AN OTGN Anklyo, 970813 AN TSGT Ankylo, 970813 AN WTB Ankylo
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Pinacosaurus sp.4 Gilmore 1933 ankylosaurid
970811 AN PJ-1, PJ-2, PJ-3 ENKH Pinaco
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet.1 Gray 1825 softshell turtle
960905 AN SND/PJ-1
 Testudines - Lindholmemydidae
Lindholmemydidae indet.1 Chkhikvadze 1970 turtle
970810 AN SZK 19:40