Also known as Flaming Cliffs, Central Asiatic Expedition, Bayn Dzak, Bayan Zag
Where: Omnogov, Mongolia (44.2° N, 103.7° E: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 92.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bayn Dzak Member (Djadokhta Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: eolian; red sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by PMPE in 1965, 1968
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: H. Osmolska. 1972. Preliminary note on a crocodilian from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. Palaeontologia Polonica 27:43-47 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 48927: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.04.2005, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Gobiosuchus kielanae n. gen. n. sp.
Gobiosuchus kielanae n. gen. n. sp. Osmolska 1972 crocodilian ZPAL MgR-II/67 - holotype (almost complete skull, somewhat flattened dorsoventrally, with damaged cranial roof; mandible lacking; disarticulated postcranial skeleton including distal dorsal vertebrae, left humerus, proximal portions of the left ulna and radius, damaged left and right femora and tibiae, left fibula, fragmentary left carpus and metacarpus, fragmentary dorsal ribs, disarticulated armour) and ZPAL MgR-II/68 - paratype (posterior half of the skull, neck, thorax and proximal two thirds of the tail encased in armour, fragments of the proximal elements of the fore- and hind limbs)
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