Shavarin Sarkhia sub-locality, Abdrant Nuru [HMNS-GIN] (Cretaceous of Mongolia)

Also known as Shavorin Salkhia

Where: Omngov, Mongolia (44.6° N, 103.1° E: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 92.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• upper part of section

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by HMNS-GIN in 1997

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), peel or thin section,

• HMNS-Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences

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: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127677: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 22.05.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae