Khara Khutul [HMNS-GIN] (Cretaceous to of Mongolia)

Also known as Khara Khutul Ula; Khar Hötöl Uul

Where: Dornogov, Mongolia (44.5° N, 109.4° E: paleocoordinates 46.6° N, 99.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Bayn Shire Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by HMNS-GIN in 1995; reposited in the PIN

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• 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 127667: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 21.05.2012

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Taxonomic list

• JMJPE shortly visited Khara Khutul in 1995, and collected several isolated bones of unknown assignment.
Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle
fragmentary shell remain