north slope, Ulan Malgait Mtn. (Shar Teg Fm., bed 7) [SMPE] (Jurassic of Mongolia)

Also known as Shar Teeg, Shar-Teg, Shar Teg

Where: Govi-Altay, Mongolia (44.1° N, 95.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 98.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shar Teg Formation, Late/Upper Jurassic (161.5 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; massive, green siltstone and massive, fine-grained, brown, yellow sandstone

• "Cyclite; in the base there are yellow-brown, fine-grained massive sandstones (up to 7 m), transferring to interbedded green siltstones, massive or with a lumpy texture, sandy siltstones and argillite with horizontal bedding (up to 6.5 m). Vertically buried stems of bottlebrushes occur in lumpy siltstones. Moreover, conchostraci, gastropods, insects, fishes, and turtles were found...Total thickness 15 m."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by SMPE in 1984, 1987, 1989; reposited in the PIN

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

• orig. discovered by V. Y. Reshetov in 1984.

Primary reference: Y. M. Gubin and S. M. Sinitza. 1996. Shar Teg: a unique Mesozoic locality of Asia. In M. Morales (ed.), The Continental Jurassic. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 60:311-318 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 179191: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.06.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet.
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
Osteichthyes
 Palaeoniscoidea -
Palaeoniscoidea indet.
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca -
Conchostraca indet.
Conchostraca indet. Sars 1867 clam shrimp
Insecta
 Insecta -
Insecta indet.