Tel Ulan Chaltsai III [HMNS-GIN] (Cretaceous of Mongolia)

Also known as Tel Ulan Shalcha, TUC-III, Tel Ulan Chartai

Where: Dornogov, Mongolia (45.1° N, 110.4° E: paleocoordinates 44.9° N, 99.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by HMNS-GIN in 1993–1994

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

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 55253: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.10.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur
940604 TUC-III GK, 940605 TUC-III
 Ornithischia - Protoceratopsidae
aff. Protoceratops sp. Granger and Gregory 1923 ceratopsian
"a Protoceratops-type egg nest"/'four egg nests'; 930812 TUC-III