Dzamin Khond [HMNS-GIN] (Cretaceous of Mongolia)

Also known as Dzamyn Khond, Zamyn Khond, Dzamyn Khondt

Where: Ömnögovi Aimag, Mongolia (44.1° N, 102.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 92.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Djadokhta Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: eolian; burrowed, fine-grained, red sandstone

• "a combination of eolian and fluvial"
• "red fine sandstone"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by HMNS-GIN in 1977, 1993–1994, 1998, 2000, 2007

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: Y. Ariunchimeg. 1997. Results of studies of dinosaur eggs. Abstract of Report Meeting, Mongolia-Japan Joint Paleontological Expedition 13 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 130798: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 13.07.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano, Jonathan Tennant and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata -
Lacertilia indet.5 lizard
000721 DK SZK LIZARD; a skull, and the postcranial bones of lizard with scales were found in the reddish brown to reddish white fine sandstone
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.4 Marsh 1881 theropod
eggs and nest; 940807 DK M&S, 980819 DK
 Theropoda - Troodontidae
Gobivenator mongoliensis n. gen. n. sp.2
Gobivenator mongoliensis n. gen. n. sp.2 Tsuihiji et al. 2014 maniraptoran
field no. 070623 DK CHZ
Aves
 Enantiornithes -
Gobipteryx "sp. B"3 Elzanowski 1974 bird
small eggs, "so-called Gobopteryx type B"
Reptilia
 Theropoda - Oviraptoridae
Citipati sp.1 Clark et al. 2001 maniraptoran
Isolated bones of Oviraptorosauria
 Ornithischia - Protoceratopsidae
Protoceratops andrewsi1 Granger and Gregory 1923 ceratopsian
several partial skeletons with skulls
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet.1 Brown 1908 ankylosaurid
Pinacosaurus sp.3 Gilmore 1933 ankylosaurid
"partial skeletal elements"
 Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Zangerlia dzamynchondi1 Sukhanov and Narmandakh 2006 turtle
Mammalia
 Mammalia -
Mammalia indet.4 mammal
the skull of a mammal; field no. 980819 DK SND AM