Khamarin-Khural (PIN coll. 559) [MPE] (Cretaceous to of Mongolia)

Also known as Khamaryn Khural

Where: Dornogov, Mongolia (44.6° N, 110.3° E: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 108.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hühteeg Formation, Late/Upper Aptian to Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 109.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; sandstone and gravel

• "sandstones and gravels"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by MPE; A. K. Rozhdestvensky in 1946, 1948, 1950, 1970-1971; reposited in the PIN

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: A. K. Rozhdestvensky. 1952. Otkrytie iguanodonta v Mongolii [The discovery of iguanodonts in Mongolia]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 84(6):1243-1246 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 53159: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.09.2005, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Nanhsiungchelyidae indet.1 Yeh 1966 turtle
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet.3 crocodilian
 Ornithischia -
Iguanodon orientalis n. sp. Rozhdestvensky 1952 ornithopod
PIN 559/1
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.3 theropod
"large and small carnivorous dinosaurs"
 Saurischia -
 Choristodera -
"Tchoiria magnus n. sp." = Ikechosaurus magnus2
"Tchoiria magnus n. sp." = Ikechosaurus magnus2 Efimov 1979 choristodere
PIN 559/501 - type (partial mandible and portions of postcranial skeleton)