Tarbagatay mines (second coal seam), Transbaikal (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

Also known as Tarbagatai, Tarbagataï

Where: Zabaykal'ye, Russian Federation (51.2° N, 109.1° E: paleocoordinates 53.4° N, 106.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Turgin Formation, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• Zugmar, Tignin, or Turgin (Turga) Formation. Found ca. 175 below ground. Shown as just below the "Turginsky Gorizont" in Martinson 1961.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; coal and claystone

• "in the clay covering of the second or lower coal seam"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by K. F. Egoroff, I. P. Tolmachev in 1912

• Riabinin lists Tolmachev as discoverer; Tolmachev lists Egoroff

Primary reference: A. N. Riabinin. 1915. Zamtka o dinozavry ise Zabaykalya [A note on a dinosaur from the trans-Baikal region]. Trudy Geologichyeskago Muszeyah Imeni Petra Velikago Imperatorskoy Academiy Nauk 8(5):133-140 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 53156: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.09.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Allosaurus sibiricus n. sp.
Allosaurus sibiricus n. sp. Riabinin 1915 theropod
metatarsal