Also known as Dzamyn Khond, Zamyn Khond; Zamin Khond

Where: Omnogov (=Southern Gobi), 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)

• upper part of the Baruungoyot Svita (= Barun Goyot), Upper Cretaceous (Late Santonian)

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•"Barsbold (1981), Suzuki et al. (2000) and Watabe et al. (2010) consider the sediments at Zamyn Khond to represent the Djadokhta Formation." - Arbour and Currie (2013)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by SMPE in 1976; reposited in the PIN

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: V. B. Sukhanov. 2000. Mesozoic turtles of Middle and Central Asia. In M. J. Benton, M. A. Shishkin, D. M. Unwin, & E N. Kurichkin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia 309-367 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137600: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 18.12.2012, edited by Jonathan Tennant

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