Dzun Shakhai [HMNS-GIN] (Cretaceous of Mongolia)

Where: Dornogov, Mongolia (45.1° N, 111.1° E: paleocoordinates 47.1° N, 111.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• Discovery of fragmentary bones of psittacosaur made it possible to assign the geological age of the beds to Early Cretaceous.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, white sandstone

• The section of the Cretaceous consist of red mudstone layers in lower part, alternation of sandstone and mudstone layers in middle, and alternation of red mudstone and white-gray sandstone layers in upper. Trace fossils are developed in hard gray sandstone bed of the upper horizon. Disarticulated dinosaur and turtle bones are preserved in hard sandstone and white fine sandstone layer of the middle and upper horizons.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by HMNS-GIN in 1995

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• On August 10, 1995 fossil prospecting was performed at Dzun Shakhai under rainy weather.

•HMNS-Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Japan

Primary reference: S. Suzuki and M. Watabe. 2000. Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1995. Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin 1:45-57 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 127658: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 21.05.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.2
Theropoda indet.2 Marsh 1881 theropod
'theropod bones'
 Ornithischia - Psittacosauridae
Psittacosauridae indet.
Psittacosauridae indet. Osborn 1923 ceratopsian
"a psittacosaurid"
 Testudines - Lindholmemydidae
Lindholmemydidae sp.1
Lindholmemydidae sp.1 Chkhikvadze 1970 turtle
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae sp.1
Trionychidae sp.1 Gray 1825 softshell turtle
 Testudines - Adocidae
Adocidae sp.1
Adocidae sp.1 Cope 1869 turtle
1Suzuki and Narmandakh 2004; 2Watabe and Suzuki 2000