Undor Bogd [HMNS-GIN] (Cretaceous of Mongolia)

Also known as Undr Bogd

Where: Omnogov, Mongolia (42.3° N, 106.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 96.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• unit not determined

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; gray, white sandstone and mudstone

• "Lithology of the beds with dinosaur footprints is alternation of gray to white colored sandstone and mudstone layers, with horizontally stratified. Visible thickness of the beds is 5 m...Dinosaur footprints are preserved in mudstone lay- ers as a natural cast of hard sandstone."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by HMNS-GIN in 1997

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. Watabe and S. Suzuki. 2000. Report on the Japan–Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1997. Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin 1:69-82 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 100269: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.12.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. dinosaur
bones and tracks
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet. Brown 1908 ankylosaurid
"type C" tracks