Tsakhurt [SMPE/SMGE] (Cretaceous to of Mongolia)

Also known as Tsakhiurt

Where: Dornogov, Mongolia (44.5° N, 109.9° E: paleocoordinates 46.2° N, 111.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tsagaantsav Formation, Valanginian to Valanginian (139.8 - 125.0 Ma)

• "upper part of the Tsagaantsav Formation"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; claystone and siltstone

• "marly clays and silts" but bone layer was not found

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by SMPE/SMGE in 1971

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: N. N. Kalandadze and S. M. Kurzanov. 1974. Nizhnemelove mestonakhozhdeniya nazemnykh pozvonochnykh Mongolii [Lower Cretaceous terrestrial vertebrate localities of Mongolia]. In N. N. Kramarenko, B. Luvsandansan, Yu. I. Voronin, R. Barsbold, A. K. Rozhdestve (eds.), Mesozoic and Cenozoic Faunas and Biostratigraphy of Mongolia. The Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition, Transactions 1:288-295 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 189413: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.10.2017

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Psittacosaurus sp. Osborn 1923 ceratopsian
2 incomplete skeletons
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. theropod
"small carnivorous dinosaur"