Alagteeg
The Alagteeg Formation is a geological formation in Mongolia whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. It predominantly consists of alternating reddish brown mudstone and horizontally laminated sandstone, with ripple cross laminations and rhizoliths. It was first formally defined as a unit by Hasegawa et al. in 2008 as a distinct unit from the overlying Djadochta Formation. The environment of deposition is suggested to be fluvial, originating in sandy braided river, floodplain and ephemeral lake depositional environments, as opposed to the desert depositional environment of the Djadochta Formation.
Fossil content
Color key
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
Dinosaurs
Sauropoda
Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
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Abdarainurus | A. barsboldi | A titanosaurian sauropod |
Ornithischians
Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
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Pinacosaurus | P. grangeri | A ankylosaurid thyreophoran | ||||
Plesiohadros | P. djadokhtaensis | A hadrosauroid ornithopod | ||||
Protoceratops | P. andrewsi | A protoceratopsid ceratopsian |
Turtles
Turtles of the Alagteeg Formation | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
Trionychidae Indet. | Indeterminate |
See also
References
- ^ Weishampel et al., 2004, pp.593-600
- ^ Hasegawa et al., 2009
- ^ Alexander O. Averianov; Alexey V. Lopatin (2020). "An unusual new sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 18 (12): 1009–1032. Bibcode:2020JSPal..18.1009A. doi:10.1080/14772019.2020.1716402. S2CID 214244529.
Bibliography
- Averianov, Alexander O.; Lopatin, Alexey V. (2020), "An unusual new sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia", Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 18 (12): 1009–1032, Bibcode:2020JSPal..18.1009A, doi:10.1080/14772019.2020.1716402
- Hasegawa, Hitoshi; Tada, Ryuji; Ichinnorov, Niiden; Minjin, Chuluun (2009), "Lithostratigraphy and depositional environments of the Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation, Ulan Nuur basin, southern Mongolia, and its paleoclimatic implication", Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 35 (1): 13–26, Bibcode:2009JAESc..35...13H, doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2008.11.010
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (2004), The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1–880, ISBN 0-520-24209-2, retrieved 2019-02-21