Also known as Ulaan Bulag
Where: Omnogov, Mongolia (46.8° N, 94.2° E: paleocoordinates 44.2° N, 83.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nemegt Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Polish-Mongolian Palaeontological Expedition in 1963
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),
• ZPAL collections
Primary reference: L. I. Khosatzky and M. Mlynarski. 1971. Chelonians from the Upper Cretaceous of the Gobi Desert, Mongolia. Palaeontologia Polonica 25:131-144 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 128694: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 15.06.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Tsaotanemys cf. rugosa" = Tsaotanemys rugosus
"Tsaotanemys cf. rugosa" = Tsaotanemys rugosus Bohlin 1953 turtle ZPAL MgCh/67-68, a damaged, incomplete carapace without crania l part. Length of the preserved fragment is 16 cm; presumable length of the entire carapace 20 cm. Eleven small fragments of carapace of a larger individual
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Amphichelydia indet. Lydekker 1889 turtle ZPAL MgCh/70, weathered shell fragments of a large turtle (about 1 m long): "it is not unlikely that these are also the remains of a form determinated as Amphichelydia gen. et sp. indet. from Tsagan Khushu"
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