Dohoin Usu (AMNH quarry 565): Campanian, Mongolia
collected by W. Granger 1929
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Nanhsiungchelyidae
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? Adocus sp.
Cope 1868
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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= Adocus sp.
Cope 1868
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Gilmore 1931 | |||||||||
| AMNH 6676 (broken carapace and plastron) | ||||||||||
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= Nanhsiungchelyidae indet.
Yeh 1966
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Danilov and Syromyatnikova 2008 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Goniopholididae
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Goniopholidae indet.
(Cope 1875)
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| original and current combination Goniopholididae | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Iguanodontia indet.
Baur 1891
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1 individual | |||||||||
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= Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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Gilmore 1933 | |||||||||
| AMNH 6594 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Mongolia | State/province: | Omnogov |
| Coordinates: | 44.8° North, 105.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.6° North, 93.8° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Dohoin Usu | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Danilov and Syromyatnikova (2008) comment that "Gilmore (1931) reported that the material comes from the ?Lower Cretaceous beds of Dohoin Usu (Dohoin Usu Formation), which is now considered to be ?Campanian in age (see Weishampel et al. 2004)". | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,blue sandy claystone |
| Secondary lithology: | red sandy claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "bluish gray sandy clay" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | AMNH | ||
| Collectors: | W. Granger | Collection dates: | 1929 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | AMNH loc. 12087, Dokhoin Us | ||
| Database number: | 48983 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, R. Benson, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, R. Benson, P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-04-05 06:58:54 | Last modified: | 2023-08-01 15:46:04 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-05 06:58:54 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 62839. | H. F. Osborn. 1930. Ancient vertebrate life of central Asia: discoveries of the central Asiatic expeditions of the Museum of Natural History in the years 1921–1929. Centenaire de la Société géologique de France. Livre jubilaire 1830-1930 2:519-543 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 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] | |
| 34192 | ETE | C. W. Gilmore. 1931. Fossil turtles of Mongolia. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 59:213-257 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 12056 | ETE | C. W. Gilmore. 1933. Two new dinosaurian reptiles from Mongolia with notes on some fragmentary specimens. American Museum Novitates 679:1-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 33967 | ETE | N. N. Kalandadze and S. M. Kurzanov. 1974. Nizhnemelove mestonakhozhdeniya nazemnykh pozvonochnykh Mongolii [Lower Cretaceous terrestrial vertebrate localities of Mongolia]. In N. N. Kramarenko, B. Luvsandansan, Yu. I. Voronin, R. Barsbold, A. K. Rozhdestve (eds.), Mesozoic and Cenozoic Faunas and Biostratigraphy of Mongolia. The Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition, Transactions 1:288-295 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |