Bugin Tsav tracksite [HMNS-GIN]: Maastrichtian, Mongolia
collected by HMNS-GIN 1998

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Dinosauria
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
1000 specimens
Reptilia
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
2 specimens
"type D" tracks
Reptilia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet. Brown 1908
Ishigaki et al. 2009 30 specimens
"type C" tracks
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
300 specimens
Saurolophus sp. Brown 1912
1 specimen
980804 BgT UB-1,2,3
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae
Theropoda indet. (Marsh 1881)
10 specimens
980731 BgT ISGK
    = Tarbosaurus sp. Maleev 1955
Ishigaki et al. 2009
"type A" tracks
see common names

Geography
Country:Mongolia State/province:Omnogov
Coordinates: 43.9° North, 100.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.4° North, 89.0° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nemegt
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,medium sandstone
Secondary lithology: mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "preserved in the mudstone layers, as natural casts made of fine- to medium-grained sandstone"
Environment:crevasse splay
Geology comments: "overbank area of a meandering river…a crevasse splay"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:HMNS-GIN Collection dates:1998
Metadata
Database number:100266
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-12-04 07:30:28 Last modified:2020-09-01 07:52:48
Access level:the public Released:2010-12-04 07:30:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

42293. S. Suzuki and M. Watabe. 2000. Report on the Japan–Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1998. Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin 1:83-98 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

29188ETE P. J. Currie, D. Badamgarav, and E. B. Koppelhus. 2003. The first Late Cretaceous footprints from the Nemegt locality in the Gobi of Mongolia. Ichnos 10:1-12 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
34415ETE S. Ishigaki, M. Watabe, K. Tsogtbaatar and M. Saneyoshi. 2009. Dinosaur footprints from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. Geological Quarterly 53(4):449-460 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55298 M. Watabe, K. Tsogtbaatar, S. Suzuki and M. Saneyoshi. 2010. Geology of dinosaur-fossil-bearing localities (Jurassic and Cretaceous: Mesozoic) in the Gobi Desert: Results of the HMNS-MPC Joint Paleontological Expedition. Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin 3:41-118 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]