Ankylosaur Flats, Ukhaa Tolgod (Cretaceous of Mongolia)

Also known as Big Mamma

Where: Omnogov, Mongolia (43.7° N, 100.9° E: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 90.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Djadokhta Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• This may be sublocality 8, see text (p. 449) in Dashzeveg et al. (1995).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: eolian; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1993–1997; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

• Institute of Geology, Mongolia.

Primary reference: P. J. Makovicky and M. A. Norell. 1998. A partial ornithomimid braincase from Ukhaa Tolgod (Upper Cretaceous, Mongolia). American Museum Novitates 3247:1-16 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37211: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 05.03.2004, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Specimen IGM 100/979 is referred to C. osmolskae. It is a postcranial skeleton on top of a nest, previously described by Clark et al. (1999).
Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet.1 Brown 1908 ankylosaurid
multiple uncollected specimens
 Theropoda - Elongatoolithidae
Elongatoolithidae indet.4 Zhao 1975 theropod
IGM 100/978, IGM 100/971 (eggs)
? Elongatoolithus frustrabilis4 Mikhailov 1994 theropod
IGM 100/1004 (MAE 95-97) (eggs)
 Theropoda - Ornithomimidae
Ornithomimidae indet. Marsh 1890 ornithomimid
IGM 100/987
 Theropoda - Troodontidae
Byronosaurus jaffei n. gen. n. sp.3
Byronosaurus jaffei n. gen. n. sp.3 Norell et al. 2000 maniraptoran
IGM 100/983
 Theropoda - Oviraptoridae
Citipati osmolskae n. gen. n. sp.2
Citipati osmolskae n. gen. n. sp.2 Clark et al. 2001 maniraptoran
Holotype (IGM 100/978), IGM 100/971
 Theropoda -
Kol ghuva n. gen. n. sp.5
Kol ghuva n. gen. n. sp.5 Turner et al. 2009 coelurosaur
IGM 100/2011