Bayn Shire (PIN coll. 557) [MPE] (Cretaceous to of Mongolia)

Also known as Bayan Shiree, Talarurus type

Where: Dornogov, Mongolia (44.3° N, 109.9° E: paleocoordinates 46.6° N, 100.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baynshire Formation, Cenomanian to Cenomanian (100.5 - 83.6 Ma)

• = Bayn Shire

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; red, sandy, calcareous claystone

• "meandering fluvial system"
• "in a cone of red calcareous clay"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by MPE in 1946, 1948

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: E. A. Maleev. 1952. Noviy ankilosavr is verchnego mela Mongolii [A new ankylosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 87(2):273-276 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79702: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.03.2008, edited by Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
"Theropoda" indet.2 theropod
"carnivorous dinosaurs"
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Talarurus plicatospineus n. gen. n. sp.
Talarurus plicatospineus n. gen. n. sp. Maleev 1952 ankylosaurid
PIN 557/91, 557
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
"Trachodontidae indet." = Hadrosauridae2
"Trachodontidae indet." = Hadrosauridae2 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
"trachodons"
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet.1, "Amyda orlovi n. sp." = Kuhnemys orlovi1, Trionyx baynshirensis n. sp.1
Trionychidae indet.1 softshell turtle
ZIN PH 156, PIN 557
"Amyda orlovi n. sp." = Kuhnemys orlovi1 Khosatzky 1976 softshell turtle
PIN 557-132/1 (formerly PIN 557-1/1), incomplete carapace; PIN 557-133, fragments of carapace on plaster; ZIN PH T/M46-1, partial hyo- and hypoplastra
Trionyx baynshirensis n. sp.1 Danilov et al. 2014 softshell turtle
PIN 557-134, medial fragment of hyo-and hypoplastron