Boro Khamarin (Cretaceous to of Mongolia)

Where: Omnogov, Mongolia (42.3° N, 105.7° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 95.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baruungoyot Formation, Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• The paleocurrent shown by trough cross-stratification in the hard layers of sandstone in the section is from east to west, and from north east to southwest...The two dinosaur egg nests from the paleosol were found in a muddy fine sandstone layer close to each other."

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 189005: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 27.09.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Nanhsiungchelyidae indet.
Nanhsiungchelyidae indet. Yeh 1966 turtle
attributed to Basilemys sp. by Sukhanov and Narmandakh (1975)