SCDP site 102, Bayan Mandahu (Cretaceous of China)

Also known as Sino-Canadian Dinosaur Project, North Canyon

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

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1990; reposited in the IVPP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: T. Jerzykiewicz, P. J. Currie, D. A. Eberth, P. A. Johnston, E. H. Koster and J. J. Zheng. 1994. Djadokha Formation correlative strata in Chinese Inner Mongolia: an overview of the stratigraphy, sedimentary geology, and paleontology and comparisons with the type locality in the pre-Altai Gobi. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 39(10-11):2180-2195 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46904: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.01.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Oviraptoridae
Oviraptorinae indet.1 Barsbold 1981 maniraptoran
 Theropoda - Elongatoolithidae
cf. Elongatoolithus sp.2 Zhao 1975 theropod
IVPP V9608