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
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Dinosauria indet.
Owen 1842
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1000 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Sauropoda indet.
Marsh 1878
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2 specimens | |||||||||
"type D" tracks | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Ankylosauridae
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Ankylosauridae indet.
Brown 1908
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Ishigaki et al. 2009 | 30 specimens | ||||||||
"type C" tracks | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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300 specimens | |||||||||
Saurolophus sp.
Brown 1912
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1 specimen | |||||||||
980804 BgT UB-1,2,3 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Tyrannosauridae
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Theropoda indet.
(Marsh 1881)
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10 specimens | |||||||||
980731 BgT ISGK | ||||||||||
= Tarbosaurus sp.
Maleev 1955
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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:
29188 | ETE | 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] |
34415 | ETE | 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] |