north slope, Ulan Malgait Mtn. (Shar Teg Fm., bed 7) [SMPE]: Late/Upper Jurassic, Mongolia
collected by SMPE 1984, 1987, 1989
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Palaeoniscoidea
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Palaeoniscoidea indet.
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| invalid subgroup of Actinopterygii | |||||||
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Reptilia
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Testudinata indet.
(Oppel 1811)
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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Branchiopoda
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Conchostraca indet.
Sars 1867
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| invalid subgroup of Diplostraca | |||||||
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Insecta
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Insecta indet.
(Linnaeus 1758)
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| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Mongolia | State/province: | Govi-Altay |
| Coordinates: | 44.1° North, 95.8° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 46.5° North, 98.3° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5-6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Jurassic | ||
| Age range of interval: | 161.50000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | massive,green siltstone |
| Secondary lithology: | massive,fine,brown,yellow sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "Cyclite; in the base there are yellow-brown, fine-grained massive sandstones (up to 7 m), transferring to interbedded green siltstones, massive or with a lumpy texture, sandy siltstones and argillite with horizontal bedding (up to 6.5 m). Vertically buried stems of bottlebrushes occur in lumpy siltstones. Moreover, conchostraci, gastropods, insects, fishes, and turtles were found...Total thickness 15 m." | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | PIN | ||
| Collectors: | SMPE | Collection dates: | 1984, 1987, 1989 |
| Collection method comments: orig. discovered by V. Y. Reshetov in 1984. | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | Shar Teeg, Shar-Teg, Shar Teg | ||
| Database number: | 179191 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-06-03 10:45:54 | Last modified: | 2019-06-19 10:21:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-06-03 10:45:54 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 59306. | Y. M. Gubin and S. M. Sinitza. 1996. Shar Teg: a unique Mesozoic locality of Asia. In M. Morales (ed.), The Continental Jurassic. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 60:311-318 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |