SBDE Quarry 96BM5, Bayan Mandahu (Cretaceous of China)

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)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: eolian; red sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by SBDE in 1996

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: O. Lambert, P. Godefroit, H. Li, C.-Y. Shang, and Z.-M. Dong. 2001. A new species of Protoceratops (Dinosauria, Neoceratopsia) from the Late Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia (P. R. China). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Science de la Terre 71(supplement):5-28 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38831: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 07.05.2004

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Protoceratopsidae
Protoceratops hellenikorhinus Lambert et al. 2001 ceratopsian