Also known as Huren-duh, Hüren-Dukh, Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition, Khuren Dukh
Where: Dornogov, Mongolia (45.8° N, 108.4° E: paleocoordinates 49.3° N, 100.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Khuren Dukh Formation), Middle Albian to Middle Albian (109.0 - 99.6 Ma)
• formerly assigned to Shinekhudag = Shinehuduk Fm. Also referred to previously as the Dzun-Bayin or Züünbayan Formation, and the Hühteeg Fm.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; sandstone and claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by SMPE in 1970-1971, 1981
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: N. N. Kalandadze and S. M. Kurzanov. 1974. Nizhnemelove mestonakhozhdeniya nazemnykh pozvonochnykh Mongolii [Lower Cretaceous terrestrial vertebrate localities of Mongolia]. In N. N. Kramarenko, B. Luvsandansan, Yu. I. Voronin, R. Barsbold, A. K. Rozhdestve (eds.), Mesozoic and Cenozoic Faunas and Biostratigraphy of Mongolia. The Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition, Transactions 1:288-295 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 52007: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.07.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia | |
Ornithocheiridae indet.3 pterosaur MMNH 100/30, rostral end of upper jaw, almost complete lower jaw and most of the postcranial skeleton
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Harpymimus okladnikovi n. gen. n. sp.3
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Psittacosaurus sp. Osborn 1923 ceratopsian
Ankylosauria indet. ankylosaur | |
Khurendukhosaurus orlovi n. gen. n. sp.4, "Tchoiria egloni n. sp." = Irenosaurus egloni2, Tchoiria namsarai n. gen. n. sp.1
Khurendukhosaurus orlovi n. gen. n. sp.4 Sigogneau-Russell and Efimov 1984 choristodere PIN 3386/3 - holotype (partial skeleton); 3386/6
"Tchoiria egloni n. sp." = Irenosaurus egloni2 Efimov 1983 choristodere PIN 3386/2 (fragmentary postcranial skeleton)
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