Amtgay [SMPE] (Cretaceous to of Mongolia)

Also known as Amtgai Khuduk

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

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• = Bainshirenskaya, Bayn Shire

•Kurumada et al. 2020: Two meaningful calcite U–Pb ages were obtained; 95.9 ± 6.0 and 89.6 ± 4.0 Ma, which are consistent with published ages from the Bayn Shire Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by SMPE in 1975; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: S. M. Kurzanov and T. A. Tumanova. 1978. The structure of the endocranium in some Mongolian ankylosaurs. Paleontological Journal 1978(3):369-374 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79724: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.03.2008, edited by Philip Mannion and Richard Butler

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Adocidae
Adocidae indet.1 Cope 1869 turtle
Adocus sp.1 Cope 1868 turtle
Adocus amtgai n. sp.1 Narmandakh 1985 turtle
PIN 3642/2, 3648-3
 Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Nanhsiungchelyidae indet.2 Yeh 1966 turtle
Listed as Zangerlia sp. by Shuvalov and Chkhikvadze (1979)
Hanbogdemys sp.2 Sukhanov and Narmandakh 2006 turtle
Listed as Basilemys orientalis by Sukhanov and Narmandakh (1977)
 Loricata - Paralligatoridae
"Shamosuchus ulgicus n. sp." = Shamosuchus gradilifrons4
"Shamosuchus ulgicus n. sp." = Shamosuchus gradilifrons4 Konzhukova 1954 crocodilian
PIN 3458/501 - type (partial skull and jaws with associated dermal armour)
 Ornithischia -
Amtosaurus magnus n. gen. n. sp.
Amtosaurus magnus n. gen. n. sp. Kurzanov and Tumanova 1978 ornithischian
PIN 3780/2
 Theropoda - Therizinosauridae
Segnosaurus galbinensis n. gen. n. sp.3
Segnosaurus galbinensis n. gen. n. sp.3 Perle 1979 coelurosaur
PIN 100/80