Ulan Khushu microsite: Maastrichtian, Mongolia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionychidae indet.
(Gray 1825)
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Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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= Gobiapalone breviplastra n. sp.
Danilov et al. 2014
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Danilov et al. 2014 | |||||||||
| recombined as Kuhnemys breviplastra | ||||||||||
| Partial shell, partial carapace and partial entoplastron | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Crocodylomorpha
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Crocodylomorpha indet.
(Hay 1930)
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Reptilia
- Dinosauria
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Dinosauria indet.
Owen 1842
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Geography
| Country: | Mongolia | State/province: | Tuva |
| Coordinates: | 47.7° North, 104.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 46.5° North, 93.8° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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,concretionary,intraclastic argillaceous,calcareous sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | current ripples sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "a tabular fine to medium grained muddy sand...The bone-bed is densely calcite-cemented and contains abundant small calcareous nodules and granule-sized rip-up clasts...Mudstones underlie the bone-bed and trough-cross bedded sands occur above." | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Lagerst�tten type: | concentrate |
| Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | variable |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Size sorting: | very poor |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),field collection |
| Rock censused: | 10000 cm2 (area) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Ulan Hushu | ||
| Database number: | 76192 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, J. Tennant |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-11-15 14:27:46 | Last modified: | 2015-04-22 10:53:25 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-11-15 14:27:46 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 25829. | ETE | D. A. Winkler, Y.-N. Lee, J.-C. and Y. Kobayashi. 2007. Preservation of a vertebrate microfauna at Ulan Khushu, Nemegt Formation (Late Cretaceous), Mongolia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):167A [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] |