Also known as Russian-Mongolian Palaeontological Expedition, Khermeen Tsav

Where: Omnogovi, Mongolia (43.5° N, 109.1° E: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 98.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baruungoyot Formation, Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Middle layers of the section on the northern slope in the Khermeen Tsav

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: eolian; sandstone and red, white, carbonaceous conglomerate

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by RMPE in 1991

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

• 40 fragments are unidentifiable. Eggshell fragments found associated with the avian bones.

Primary reference: V. R. Alifanov. 1988. The new lizards (Lacertilia: Teiidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. In F. Kurochkin (ed.), Fossil reptiles and birds of Mongolia 90-100 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 58105: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 20.01.2006, edited by Roger Benson, Terri Cleary and Matthew Carrano

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