Dzun Bayan [HMNS-GIN] (Cretaceous to of Mongolia)

Also known as Sainshand, Mungon Dukh, Sain Shanda

Where: Dornogov, Mongolia (44.6° N, 110.2° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 100.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cenomanian to Cenomanian (100.5 - 83.6 Ma)

• "probably the Baynshirenian (early Late Cretaceous)"

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; mudstone and sandstone

• "fluvio-lacustrine environments"
• "sandstone and mudstone"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collected by HMNS-GIN in 1994, 2008

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float),

Primary reference: W. Watabe and S. Suzuki. 2000. Report on the Japan–Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1994. Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin 1:30-44 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 130794: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 13.07.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• JMJPE visited the locality to collect pollen samples from the Lower Cretaceous mudstone. Here was not fossil discovery.
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Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur
fragmentary bones and teeth
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet.
Ankylosauridae indet. Brown 1908 ankylosaurid
partial skeletons, 080919 MD TBM