Ulan Malgait Mtn. (Shar Teg Fm., bed 8) [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; fine-grained sandstone and brown siltstone

• "Cyclite; in the base there are grey not clearly bedded fine-grained sandstones (up to 12 m), transferring to violet-brown, not clearly bedded siltstones. Insects, conchostraci, chelicerates and fish were found. Total thickness is 22 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 179195: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.06.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Insecta -
Insecta indet.
Xiphosura
 Xiphosurida - Limulidae
Limulidae indet.
Limulidae indet. Leach 1819 horseshoe crab
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca -
Conchostraca indet.
Conchostraca indet. Sars 1867 clam shrimp
Osteichthyes
 Palaeoniscoidea -
Palaeoniscoidea indet.
Palaeoniscoidea indet.
"palaeoniscomorphs"