Bayshin-Tsav [SMPE] (PIN coll. 100) (Cretaceous to of Mongolia)

Also known as Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition, Bayshin Tsav

Where: Omnogov, Mongolia (43.1° N, 107.5° E: paleocoordinates 45.0° N, 98.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Baynshire Formation, Cenomanian to Cenomanian (100.5 - 83.6 Ma)

• Baynshire Suite = Bayn Shire = Baynshiree = Bainshirenskaya. Cenomanian to Santonian date is based upon palaeomagnetic analyses (see Watabe et al. 2009)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by SMPE in 1972

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: A. Perle. 1977. O pervoy nakhodke Alektrozavra (Tyrannosauridae, Theropoda) iz pozdnego Mela Mongolii [On the first discovery of Alectrosaurus (Tyrannosauridae, Theropoda) in the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia]. Shinzhlekh Ukhaany Akademi Geologiin Khureelen 3(3):104-113 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67974: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.12.2006, edited by Philip Mannion, Bethany Allen and Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Carettochelyidae
Anosteira shuvalovi n. sp.4 Chkhikvadze 1979 turtle
 Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus amtgai6 Narmandakh 1985 turtle
PIN 3640-3, an almost complete skeleton from the Bayshin Tsav locality, Dornogov Aimag (Eastern Gobi), Mongolia; upper part of the Bainshire Formation, upper Turoniane Santonian. Previously, this specimen was erroneously indicated to come from the Amtgai locality
 Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
"Basilemys orientalis n. sp." = Hanbogdemys orientalis5
"Basilemys orientalis n. sp." = Hanbogdemys orientalis5 Sukhanov and Narmandakh 1975 turtle
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Arstanosaurus sp.7 Shilin and Suslov 1982 hadrosaurid
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae indet.3 Osborn 1906 tyrannosaurid
PST.GIN AN MNP 100/50, 100/51
 Theropoda - Deinocheiridae
Garudimimus brevipes n. gen. n. sp.1
Garudimimus brevipes n. gen. n. sp.1 Barsbold 1981 Garudi mimic
GIN 100/13
 Theropoda - Therizinosauridae
cf. Segnosaurus sp.8 Perle 1979 coelurosaur
 Theropoda -
Erlikosaurus andrewsi n. gen. n. sp.2
Erlikosaurus andrewsi n. gen. n. sp.2 Barsbold and Perle 1980 coelurosaur
GIN 100/11