Also known as Oshih Basin, Psittacosaurus type
Where: Ovorkhangai, Mongolia (44.2° N, 102.7° E: paleocoordinates 45.0° N, 103.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Öösh Formation, Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• originally Ondai Sair Fm., now the "cannonball beds" of the Öösh Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Wong in 1922; reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: H. F. Osborn. 1923. Two Lower Cretaceous dinosaurs of Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 95:1-10 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 48936: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.04.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Ornithischia indet., Psittacosaurus mongoliensis n. gen. n. sp.
Ornithischia indet. ornithischian
Psittacosaurus mongoliensis n. gen. n. sp. Osborn 1923 ceratopsian |