Altan Ula III [SMPE] (PIN coll. 4231) (Cretaceous of Mongolia)

Also known as Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition

Where: Omnogov, Mongolia (43.6° N, 100.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.2° N, 89.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nemegt Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by SMPE; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: K. E. Mikhailov. 1991. Classification of fossil eggshells of amniotic vertebrates. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 36(2):193-238 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65345: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.09.2006, edited by Jonathan Tennant

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet.1 softshell turtle
Trionyx gobiensis1 Danilov et al. 2014 softshell turtle
shell fragment
 Ornithischia - Ovaloolithidae
Ovaloolithus dinornithoides n. sp.2 Mikhaillov 1994 ornithopod
O2 group; PIN 4231/1, egg