ammonites
Bayn Dzak (SMPE) (Cretaceous of Mongolia)

Also known as Shabarak Usu

Where: Omnogov, Mongolia (44.2° N, 103.7° E: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 92.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bayn Dzak Member (Djadokhta Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: eolian; red sandstone

• "red desert sand"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by SMPE in 1948; reposited in the PIN

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: E. A. Maleev. 1952. Novoe semeystvo pantsirnich dinosavrov is verchnego mela Mongolii [A new family of armored dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 87(1):131-134 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 53229: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 07.09.2005