Khamarin-Khural (PIN coll. 559) [MPE]: Late/Upper Aptian - Early/Lower Albian, Mongolia
collected by MPE; A. K. Rozhdestvensky 1946, 1948, 1950, 1970-1971

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Nanhsiungchelyidae indet. Yeh 1966
Danilov and Syromyatnikova 2008
Reptilia
Tchoiria magnus n. sp. Efimov 1979
Efimov and Storrs 2000 1 individual
recombined as Ikechosaurus magnus
PIN 559/501 - type (partial mandible and portions of postcranial skeleton)
Theropoda indet. (Marsh 1881)
Kalandadze and Kurzanov 1974
"large and small carnivorous dinosaurs"
Iguanodon orientalis n. sp. Rozhdestvensky 1952
1 individual
nomen dubium belonging to Iguanodontoidea
PIN 559/1
Sauropoda indet. (Marsh 1878)
Kalandadze and Kurzanov 1974
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Kalandadze and Kurzanov 1974
see common names

Geography
Country:Mongolia State/province:Dornogov
Coordinates: 44.6° North, 110.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.0° North, 108.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Key time interval:Late/Upper Aptian - Early/Lower Albian
Age range of interval:119.50000 - 109.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Hühteeg
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Secondary lithology: gravel
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "sandstones and gravels"
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:all
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:PIN
Collectors:MPE; A. K. Rozhdestvensky Collection dates:1946, 1948, 1950, 1970-1971
Metadata
Also known as:Khamaryn Khural
Database number:53159
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-09-06 17:22:38 Last modified:2023-08-01 15:21:47
Access level:the public Released:2005-09-06 17:22:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

24889.ETE A. K. Rozhdestvensky. 1952. Otkrytie iguanodonta v Mongolii [The discovery of iguanodonts in Mongolia]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 84(6):1243-1246 [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]
44151 M. B. Efimov and G. W. Storrs. 2000. Choristodera from the Lower Cretaceous of northern Asia. In M. J. Benton, M. A. Shishkin, D. M. Unwin, & E N. Kurichkin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia 390-401 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]
65116 I. A. Efremov. 1954. Paleontologeskiye issledovaniya v Mongol'skoy Narodnoy Respulike (predvaritel'nyye rezul'taty ekspeditsiyy 1946, 1948 i 1949 gg.) [Paleontological investigations in the Mongolian People's Republic (preliminary results of the expeditions of 1946, 1947, and 1949)]. Trudy Mongolʹskoĭ Komissii 59:3-32 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
33967ETE 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]
69233 E. N. Kurochkin and R. Barsbold. 2000. The Russian-Mongolian expeditions and research in vertebrate palaeontology. In M. J. Benton, M. A. Shishkin, D. M. Unwin, & E N. Kurichkin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia 235-255 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14512ETE D. B. Norman. 1996. On Mongolian ornithopods (Dinosauria: Ornithischia). 1. Iguanodon orientalis Rozhdestvensky 1952. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 116:303-315 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
11800ETE D. B. Norman. 1998. On Asian ornithopods (Dinosauria: Ornithischia). 3. A new species of iguanodontid dinosaur. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 122:291-348 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14517ETE D. B. Norman and H.-D. Sues. 2000. Ornithopods from Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Siberia. In M. J. Benton, M. A. Shishkin, D. M. Unwin, & E N. Kurichkin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia 462-479 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]
14376ETE A. K. Rozhdestvensky. 1977. The study of dinosaurs in Asia. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 20:102-119 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62149 V. F. Shuvalov. 2000. The Cretaceous stratigraphy and palaeobiogeography of Mongolia. In M. J. Benton, M. A. Shishkin, D. M. Unwin, & E N. Kurichkin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia 256-278 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary/M. Carrano]
61518 D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]