Gurilyn Tsav [RMPE] (Cretaceous of Mongolia)

Also known as Gooreeliyn-Tsav, Gurilin Tsav, Gurlin Tsav, Gooriliyn-Tsav

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• in "the lower portions of the Nemegt Horizon"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by RMPE in 1987, 1994; reposited in the PIN

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: E. N. Kurochkin. 1999. A new large enantiornithid from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta 277:130-141 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84444: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.10.2008, edited by Roger Benson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• list incomplete: fossils "include a variety of theropods and hadrosaurian dinosaurs, as well as varanid lizards, turtles, fish, and the large enantiornithine bird Gurilynia"
Aves
 Anseriformes - Presbyornithidae
Teviornis gobiensis n. gen. n. sp.
Teviornis gobiensis n. gen. n. sp. Kurochkin et al. 2002 waterfowl
 Alexornithiformes - Enantiornithidae
Gurilynia nessovi n. gen. n. sp.
Gurilynia nessovi n. gen. n. sp. Kurochkin 1999 bird
holotype partial humerus and partial coracoid