Shara-Tsav [SMPE] (PIN coll. 3906) (Cretaceous to of Mongolia)

Also known as Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition, Shar Tsav

Where: Omnogov, Mongolia (43.6° N, 103.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.2° N, 92.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baruungoyot Formation, Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; marl and claystone

• "the bluffs consist of mottled marls, clays, siltstones, sandstones, and grits"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by SMPE in 1971; reposited in the PIN

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: S. M. Kurzanov. 1981. O neobuchnykh teropodakh iz verkhnego mela MNR [An unusual theropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia]. Fossil Reptiles of Mongolia. Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya, Trudy [The Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition, Transactions] 24:39-50 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51971: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 07.07.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Ornithomimidae
Gallimimus sp. Osmólska et al. 1972 ornithomimid
 Theropoda -
Avimimus portentosus Kurzanov 1981 maniraptoran
PIN 3906/1, postcrania (paratype)
 Saurischia - Nemegtosauridae
Quaesitosaurus orientalis n. gen. n. sp. Kurzanov and Bannikov 1983 sauropod
PIN 3906/2, skull