Shiregin Gashun (PMPE): Cenomanian - Santonian, Mongolia
collected by PMPE 1971

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. (Gray 1825)
Danilov et al. 2014
Shell fragments, ZIN PH 167
Reptilia - Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Nanhsiungchelyidae indet. Yeh 1966
Danilov and Syromyatnikova 2008
attributed to ?Zangerlia sp. by Shuvalov and Chkhikvadze (1975)
Reptilia - Paralligatoridae
Paralligator gradilifrons Konzhukova 1954
Maryanska and Osmólska 1975
Reptilia
Microceratops gobiensis Bohlin 1953
Maryanska and Osmólska 1975 1 individual
ZPal MgD-I/156
    = Graciliceratops mongoliensis n. gen., n. sp. Sereno 2000
Sereno 2000
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
Maryanska and Osmólska 1975
Reptilia - Ankylosauridae
"Syrmosaurus" disparoserratus Maleev 1952
Maryanska and Osmólska 1975
nomen dubium belonging to Ankylosauridae
Reptilia - Theropoda
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
1 individual
"the postcranial skeleton of a small theropod dinosaur"
Reptilia - Ornithomimidae
Ornithomimidae indet. Marsh 1890
Maryanska and Osmólska 1975
see common names

Geography
Country:Mongolia State/province:Omnogov
Coordinates: 43.9° North, 101.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.5° North, 91.7° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:1039 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
*Period:Late/Upper Cretaceous *Epoch:Late/Upper Gallic - Early/Lower Senonian
*International age/stage:Cenomanian - Coniacian
Key time interval:Cenomanian - Santonian
Age range of interval:100.50000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Baynshire
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: age listed as "pre-Djadokhta" and "older, presumably early Late Cretaceous deposits". Shiregin Gashun formation - but more likely the same as the Baynshire Formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some macrofossils,species names
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:PMPE Collection dates:Jul 1971
Taxonomic list comments:"Syrmosaurus" disparoserratus now = Maleevus disparoserratus. This specimen of Microceratops is now the type of Graciliceratops gobiensis Sereno 2001.
Metadata
Also known as:Polish-Mongolian Palaeontological Expedition 1971, Shiregin Gashoon
Database number:13411
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, J. Tennant, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-03-19 13:34:28 Last modified:2023-09-26 12:52:06
Access level:the public Released:2002-03-19 13:34:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

9899. Z. Kielan-Jaworowska and R. Barsbold. 1972. Narrative of the Polish-Mongolian Palaeontological Expeditions 1967-1971. Palaeontologia Polonica 27:5-136 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

50209 I. G. Danilov, R. Hirayama, V. B. Sukhanov, S. Suzuki, M. Watabe and N. S. Vitek. 2014. Cretaceous soft-shelled turtles (Trionychidae) of Mongolia: new diversity, records, and a revision. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 12(7):799-832 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion]
41748 I. G. Danilov and E. V. Syromyatnikova. 2008. New materials on turtles of the family Nanhsiungchelyidae from the Cretaceous of Uzbekistan and Mongolia, with a review of the Nanhsiungchelyid record in Asia. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 312(1/2):3-25 [R. Benson/R. Benson/P. Mannion]
60485% 6700T. Maryanska and H. Osmólska. 1975. Protoceratopsidae (Dinosauria) of Asia. Palaeontologica Polonica 33:133-181 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62057 H. Osmólska. 1997. Polish-Mongolian Paleontological Expeditions. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 573-576 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14425ETE P. C. Sereno. 2000. The fossil record, systematics and evolution of pachycephalosaurs and ceratopsians from Asia. In M. J. Benton, M. A. Shishkin, D. M. Unwin, & E N. Kurichkin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia 480-516 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]