Also known as Alag Teg; Alag Teg, Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition
Where: Omnogov, Mongolia (44.3° N, 103.3° E: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 92.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Alagteeg Formation, Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)
• Also specimens from Djadokhta Formation
•lower section of Alagteeg Fm.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: pond; mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by SMPE in 1969–1970; reposited in the PIN
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• The collection is composed of approximately 285 specimens, including ~160 vertebrae (disarticulated, except for three articulated series, including one of four cervicals, one of seven caudals, and another of 21 caudals), over 20 rib fragments, ~20 girdle elements, ~30 complete and fragmentary limb bones, ~30 isolated manual and pedal bones, and ~15 cervical half-ring fragments. This material, all of which is prepared, was examined by the first and second authors
•via measurements, observations, and photographs.
•Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition
Primary reference: R. Gradzinski, Z. Kielan-Jaworowska, and T. Maryanska. 1977. Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta, Barun Goyot and Nemegt formations of Mongolia, including remarks on previous subdivisions. Acta Geologica Polonica 27(3):281-318 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 167657: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 27.03.2015, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Carnosauria indet. carnosaur | |
Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis n. gen. n. sp.
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? Protoceratops andrewsi Granger and Gregory 1923 ceratopsian | |
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Sauropoda indet. sauropod |