Also known as KD-I, KD-Hawaii
Where: Dornogov, Mongolia (45.8° N, 108.4° E: paleocoordinates 49.3° N, 100.1° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Khuren Dukh Formation), Middle Albian to Middle Albian (109.0 - 99.6 Ma)
• formerly Shinekhudag = Shinehuduk Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; fine-grained, coarse, white, blue sandstone and brown, carbonaceous siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collected by HMNS-GIN in 1993, 1995–1996, 2001
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ),
• Pollen samples also collected.
Primary reference: M. Watabe and D. B. Weishampel. 1994. Results of Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences–Institute of Geology, Academy of Sciences of Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi Desert in 1993. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(3, suppl.):51A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 55252: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.10.2005, edited by Roger Benson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Hangaiemys sp.3 Sukhanov and Narmandakh 1974 turtle 930371 KD-I; 960720 KD-I TSGT, SZK; 960720 KD WTB; 960721 KD OTG
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Choyrodon barsboldi n. gen. n. sp.1
Choyrodon barsboldi n. gen. n. sp.1 Gates et al. 2018 ornithopod several skeletons, incl. 1 juvenile/'a whole and three partial skeletons'; 960721 KD ENK
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Tchoiria sp.2 Efimov 1975 choristodere a champsosaurid skeleton with skull and two other partial skeletons; 960721 KD ORKh, 960721 KD SZK, 960721 KD TSGT
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