Shabarakh Usu, Ruins sublocality [PMPE] (Cretaceous of Mongolia)

Also known as Polish-Mongolian Palaeontological Expedition

Where: Omngov, Mongolia (44.0° N, 104.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 93.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Djadokhta Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Dashzeveg et al. 2005: The quick stratigraphic succession of normal and reversed magnetozones suggests, but does not clearly establish, that the sediments may have been deposited during the rapid sequence of polarity changes in the late part of the Campanian between about 75 to 71 Ma.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: eolian; red sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by PMPE

Primary reference: H. Osmolska. 1972. Preliminary note on a crocodilian from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. Palaeontologia Polonica 27:43-47 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114241: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 12.08.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Elongatoolithidae
Elongatoolithidae indet.2 Zhao 1975 theropod
ZPAL MgO-II
Aves
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Aves indet.2 Linnaeus 1758 bird
ZPAL MgO-II/7a-e (eggs)
Reptilia
 Loricata - Gobiosuchidae
Gobiosuchus kielanae1 Osmolska 1972 crocodilian
ZPAL MgR-II/69 (skull with articulated mandible, lacking end of the snout, occiput, brain case and palate; three most proximal pairs of the dorsal cervical osteoderms articulated with the skull), ZPAL MgR-II/70 (snout with articulated anterior part of mandible) and ZPAL MgR-II/71 (dorsal part of armour from ?posterior part of the neck and most of the thorax)