PBDB Collection

Gilbentu (Cretaceous to of Mongolia)

Also known as Gilbent Uul

Where: Omnogov, Mongolia (43.9° N, 101.3° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 38.5° N, 96.7° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• also listed as Nemegt Fm.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by MPE in 1946

Primary reference: K. Mikhailov, K. Sabath, and S. Kurzanov. 1994. Eggs and nests from the Cretaceous of Mongolia. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 88-115 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154402: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 19.02.2014, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
Testudines - Trionychidae	Trionychidae indet.¹, Trionyx gilbentuensis n. sp.¹ Trionychidae indet.¹ softshell turtle Shell fragments, ZIN PH 163 Trionyx gilbentuensis n. sp.¹ Danilov et al. 2014 softshell turtle Partial hyo- and hypoplastra; ZIN PH T/M46-2
Ornithischia - Protoceratopsidae	Protoceratops andrewsi³, Bagaceratops sp.⁴ Protoceratops andrewsi³ Granger and Gregory 1923 ceratopsian PIN 4550/1, first 3 cervical vertebrae Bagaceratops sp.⁴ Maryanska and Osmólska 1975 ceratopsian PIN 4550/3
Aves
- Gobioolithidae	Gobioolithus maior² Gobioolithus maior² Mikhailov 1996 bird G1 group eggs ("smaller Gobipteryx")

¹Danilov et al. 2014; ²Mikhailov 1996; ³Tereshchenko 1996; ⁴Tereshchenko 2007