Tsagaan Teg [HMNS-GIN] (Cretaceous to of Mongolia)

Also known as Tsagan-Teg, Tsagan Teg, TsT

Where: Dornogov, Mongolia (44.4° N, 109.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.6° N, 99.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Baynshire Formation, Cenomanian to Cenomanian (100.5 - 83.6 Ma)

• = Bayn Shire

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and mudstone

• "alternating beds of sandstone and mudstone"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by HMNS-GIN in 1989, 1995–1996, 2008

Collection methods: quarrying,

• HMNS-Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences

Primary reference: S. Suzuki and M. Watabe. 2000. Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1995. Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin 1:45-57 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 127664: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 21.05.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.2
Dinosauria indet.2 Owen 1842 dinosaur
fragmentary bones and teeth, incl. 080920 TsT BON
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Tsagantegia sp.5
Tsagantegia sp.5 Tumanova 1993 ankylosaurid
an ankylosaur
 Ornithischia -
Hadrosauroidea indet.2, ? Hadrosauroidea indet.2
Hadrosauroidea indet.2 ornithopod
080920 TsT KHB, TUI
? Hadrosauroidea indet.2 ornithopod
080920 TsT BON
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod
isolated bones of a sauropod, partly articulated
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.4
Theropoda indet.4 Marsh 1881 theropod
a theropod
 Theropoda - Caenagnathidae
Caenagnathidae indet.3
Caenagnathidae indet.3 Sternberg 1940 maniraptoran
MPC-D 107/17 (field no. 080920 TsT TUI)
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet.1
Trionychidae indet.1 Gray 1825 softshell turtle
fragmentary remain
1Suzuki and Narmandakh 2004; 2Tsubamoto et al. 2010; 3Tsuihiji et al. 2015; 4Watabe and Suzuki 2000; 5Watabe and Suzuki 2000