Kalbak-Kyry, Tuva (Jurassic of Russian Federation)

Where: Tuva, Russian Federation (51.7° N, 94.3° E: paleocoordinates 53.6° N, 93.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Saldam Formation, Late/Upper Jurassic (163.5 - 145.0 Ma)

• uppermost member (unnamed) of Saldam Formation

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; concretionary, gray, green, calcareous siltstone and fine-grained, brown, gray, argillaceous limestone

• "alternation of continental and basin cycles. The former are represented by fluviatile, delta-proluvial, lacustrine-swampy, and facies of peat bogs; the latter, by shallow and deep-water facies."

•"formed by intense fault-block movements"

• "the deposits are represented by alternating greenish gray siltstone, fine and medium-grained polymictic sandstone...a linestone lens (100 x 50 x 0.3 m) was found in an interbed of green siltstone. The rock is inactive, dark gray with a brownish tint, dense, fine-grained, clayey limestone...Siltstone is strongly fractured, easily disintegrates into gravel, and contains numerous dense carbonate concretions (1-7 cm). The latter and the overlying limestone contain isolated fine inclusions (01.-1 cm) of colorless, white, and orange strontium-containing barite. The siltstone bed is the main bone-bearing layer."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by V. I. Kudryavtsev, V. I. Zabelin, & PIN in 1957-2004

Collection methods: quarrying,

• discovered in 1957 by geologists S. M. Paletskikh, Yu. S. Golovin, & S. I. Abramovich. Reopened in 2001 by V. I. Kudryavtsev & V. I. Zabelin; visited by PIN expedition in 2002-.

Primary reference: A. I. Kudryavtsev and V. I. Kudryavtsev. 2003. Mineral composition of dinosaur fossils from the Kalbak-Kyry locality, Tuva. Paleontological Journal 37(4):96-102 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 35288: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.11.2003

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ornithischia indet.1 ornithischian
vertebral centra
Saldamosaurus tuvensis n. gen. n. sp.2 Ulansky 2014 ornithischian
TuvIKOPR K-248, braincase
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.1 theropod
caudals, tooth