Shine Us Khuduk (Cretaceous to of Mongolia)

Also known as Shine Us Khudag

Where: Dornogov, Mongolia (44.3° N, 109.4° E: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 99.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Bayn Shire Fm = Baynshiree Fm

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Mongolian Academy of Sciences in 2005-2006

Primary reference: R. Barsbold, Y. Kobayashi, and K. Kubota. 2007. New discovery of dinosaur fossils from the Upper Cretaceous Bayanshiree Formation of Mongolia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3, suppl.):44A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76061: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.11.2007, edited by Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. softshell turtle
Shell fragments, at least 3 specimens
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria indet. Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
"affinities with Opisthocoelicaudia"
 Theropoda -
Tyrannosauroidea indet. Walker 1964 coelurosaur
Therizinosauroidea indet. Russell and Dong 1994 coelurosaur
 Theropoda - Ornithomimidae
Ornithomimidae indet. Marsh 1890 ornithomimid
 Theropoda -
Deinonychosauria indet. Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran
pedal phalanx
 Ornithischia -
Iguanodontia indet. ornithopod
surangular, possibly hadrosaurid