Shiregin Gashoon sites (Cretaceous to of Mongolia)

Also known as Sheeregeen Gachoon, Polish-Mongolian Palaeontological Expedition

Where: Omnogov, Mongolia (43.9° N, 101.3° E: paleocoordinates 45.2° N, 91.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sheeregeen Gashoon Formation, Cenomanian to Cenomanian (100.5 - 89.8 Ma)

• = Baynshirenskaya Svita

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by PMPE in 1970

Primary reference: Z. Kielan-Jaworowska and R. Barsbold. 1972. Narrative of the Polish-Mongolian Palaeontological Expeditions 1967-1971. Palaeontologia Polonica 27:5-136 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 37021: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.02.2004, edited by Roger Benson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Lindholmemydidae
Lindholmemys martinsoni n. sp. Ckhikvadze 1975 turtle
IP Mg-6-17 (holotype partial shell)
Lindholmemys martinsoni Ckhikvadze 1975 turtle
ZPAL MgCh/71, a nearly complete carapace and a broken plastron
 Dinosauria -