Shiljust-Ula [SMPE]: Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian, Mongolia
collected by SMPE 1980?, 1989
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Spheroolithidae
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? Spheroolithidae indet.
Zhao 1979
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Mikhailov et al. 1994 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| ?S2 Group, egg and clutch | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Ankylosauridae
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Pinacosaurus grangeri
Gilmore 1933
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PIN 3780/3 | ||||||||||
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Phaceloolithidae
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Dendroolithus sp.
Zhao and Li 1988
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Mikhailov et al. 1994 | |||||||||
| at least 2 clutches, D1 Group; PIN uncat. | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Mongolia | State/province: | Omnogov |
| Coordinates: | 42.5° North, 105.3° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.5° North, 94.7° 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: | Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Baruungoyot |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | coarse,ferruginous,red sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "red beds"; "The iron stained eggs occur in red, coarse-grained sands and gravels" | |
| Environment: | wet floodplain |
| Geology comments: "ponds on an alluvial plain" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | SMPE | Collection dates: | 1980s?, 1989 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition, Shilt-Ula, Shilt-Uul | ||
| Database number: | 65334 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-09-21 07:22:15 | Last modified: | 2021-03-18 14:06:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-09-21 07:22:15 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 26796. | ETE | T. A. Tumanova. 1987. Pantsirnyye dinozavry Mongolii [The armored dinosaurs of Mongolia]. Trudy Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya 32:1-80 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 14221 | ETE | K. Carpenter and K. Alf. 1994. Global distribution of dinosaur eggs, nests, and babies. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 13-30 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 14217 | ETE | K. Mikhailov, K. Sabath, and S. Kurzanov. 1994. Eggs and nests from the Cretaceous of Mongolia. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 88-115 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 18351 | ETE | T. A. Tumanova. 2000. Armoured dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Mongolia. In M. J. Benton, M. A. Shishkin, D. M. Unwin, & E N. Kurichkin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia 517-532 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |