Shar Teg (Shar Teg Fm.) [HMNS-GIN] (Jurassic of Mongolia)

Also known as Shar Teeg, Shar-Teg

Where: Govi-Altay, Mongolia (44.1° N, 95.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 98.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shar Teg Formation, Late/Upper Jurassic (163.5 - 145.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by HMNS-GIN in 2002; reposited in the PIN

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

• GIN, Ulan Baatar, Mongolia

Primary reference: V. B. Sukhanov. 2000. Mesozoic turtles of Middle and Central Asia. In M. J. Benton, M. A. Shishkin, D. M. Unwin, & E N. Kurichkin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia 309-367 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127736: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 22.05.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Tritylodontidae
Tritylodontidae indet.1 Cope 1884 mammaliamorph
Reptilia
 Testudines - Xinjiangchelyidae
Shartegemys laticentralis n. sp. Sukhanov and Narmandakh 2000 turtle
 Loricata -
Protosuchia indet.2 Mook 1934 crocodilian
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.1 Owen 1842 dinosaur