Also known as Russian-Mongolian Palaeontological Expedition
Where: Omnogovi, Mongolia (43.5° N, 109.1° E: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 98.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Barun Goyot Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Middle layers of the section on the northern slope in the Khermeen Tsav
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: eolian; sandstone and red, white, carbonaceous conglomerate
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by RMPE in 1991
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical, sieve,
• 40 fragments are unidentifiable. Eggshell fragments found associated with the avian bones.
Primary reference: E. N. Kurochkin. 1996. A new enantiornithid of the Mongolian Late Cretaceous, and a general appraisal of the infraclass Enantiornithes (Aves). Russian Academy of Sciences Palaeontological Institute Special Issue 1-60 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 58105: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 20.01.2006, edited by Roger Benson and Matt Carrano