Khuren Dukh III [HMNS-GIN] (Cretaceous to of Mongolia)

Also known as KD-III

Where: Dornogov, Mongolia (45.9° N, 108.4° E: paleocoordinates 49.3° N, 100.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Khuren Dukh Formation), Middle Albian to Middle Albian (109.0 - 99.6 Ma)

• formerly Shinekhudag = Shinehuduk Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; fine-grained, coarse, white, blue sandstone and black, carbonaceous mudstone

• "alternation of bluish white fine to coarse sandstone and black lignite and lignitic mudstone (paper shale in some horizons"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by HMNS-GIN in 1993, 2001

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

Primary reference: M. Watabe and S. Suzuki. 2000. Report on the Japan–Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1993. Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin 1:17-29 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 164560: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.12.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet.
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
 Ornithischia -
Psittacosaurus sp.
Psittacosaurus sp. Osborn 1923 ceratopsian
isolated bones