AMNH quarry 804, Tairum Nor (Cretaceous of Mongolia)

Also known as Central Asiatic Expedition

Where: Mongolia (43.3° N, 113.1° E: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 102.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tairum Nor Formation, Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; red, white claystone

• "red and white clays"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Horwarth in 1928; reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: H. F. Osborn. 1930. Ancient vertebrate life of central Asia: discoveries of the central Asiatic expeditions of the Museum of Natural History in the years 1921–1929. Centenaire de la Société géologique de France. Livre jubilaire 1830-1930 2:519-543 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48985: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Tracheophyta indet.
fossil wood
Reptilia
 Theropoda - Ornithomimidae
Ornithomimidae indet. Marsh 1890 ornithomimid