SCDP site 63, Bayan Mandahu (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Sino-Canadian Dinosaur Project

Where: Nei Mongol, China (41.8° N, 106.7° E: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 96.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bayan Mandahu Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: eolian; red sandstone

• "Facies of subaerial deposition interfingering with water-lain interdune/ emphemeral facies"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1990; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: G. Botfalvai, E. Prondvai, and A. 2021. Living alone or moving in herds? A holistic approach highlights complexity in the social lifestyle of Cretaceous ankylosaurs. Cretaceous Research 118:104633 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 232428: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.11.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Pinacosaurus grangeri Gilmore 1933 ankylosaurid
IVPP 050790-1a; IVPP 050790-1b