Ikh-Shunkht (SMPE) (Cretaceous to of Mongolia)

Also known as Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition

Where: Dornogov, Mongolia (43.7° N, 107.8° E: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 96.8° E)

• 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

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by SMPE in 1987; reposited in the PIN

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: K. Mikhailov, K. Sabath, and S. Kurzanov. 1994. Eggs and nests from the Cretaceous of Mongolia. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 88-115 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65327: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.09.2006, edited by Albert Garcia Selles

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Spheroolithidae
Spheroolithidae indet. Zhao 1979 ornithopod
S2 Group
  - Prismatoolithidae
Protoceratopsidovum sincerum1 Mikhailov 1994 dinosaur
= PI Group
Protoceratopsidovum minimum1 Mikhailov 1994 dinosaur
PIN 4477/2
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Velociraptor sp.2 Osborn 1924 maniraptoran
 Theropoda - Elongatoolithidae
Macroolithus mutabilis n. sp.1 Mikhailov 1994 theropod
PIN 4477/5
 Saurischia - Faveoloolithidae
Faveoloolithus ningxiaensis Zhao and Ding 1976 sauropod
PIN uncat., clutch with eggs