The Shinekhudag Formation (also known as Shinekhudug Formation, Shinekhudag or Shinekhudukskaya Svita) is a geological formation in Dundgov, Mongolia whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains have been recovered from it.[2][3] It has formerly been considered Aptian-Albian in age, but more recent research suggests an earlier Berriasian-Hauterivian age.[4]
| Shinekhudag Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: | |
| Type | Geological formation |
| Underlies | Khukhtek Formation[1] |
| Overlies | Tsagaantsav Svita |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Sandstone, argillite, marl, clay |
| Location | |
| Region | Dundgov |
| Country | Mongolia |
Vertebrate paleofauna
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Dinosaurs
edit| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic Position | Material | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harpymimus[5] | H. okladnikovi[5] | Khuren Dukh | "Partial skull with incomplete skeleton."[6] | A primitive ornithomimosaur. | .jpg)
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| Iguanodon[7] | I. orientalis[7] | Khamarin-Khural | "Fragmentary skeleton."[7] | A dubious iguanodont of uncertain affinities.[8][9] | ||
| Psittacosaurus sp. | Indeterminate | Khuren Dukh | "Partial skeletons."[10][11] | A primitive ceratopsian. | 
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See also
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edit- ^ Okada, H.; Mateer, N.J. (2000). Cretaceous Environments of Asia. Elsevier Science. p. 62. ISBN 9780080530093. Retrieved 2015-05-17.
- ^ Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Early Cretaceous, Asia)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 563-570. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
- ^ Benton, M. J. (Michael J.) (2003). The age of dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge University Press. p. 259. ISBN 0-521-54582-X. OCLC 53710242.
- ^ Adiya, Tsolmon; Johnson, Cari L.; Loewen, Mark A.; Ritterbush, Kathleen A.; Constenius, Kurt N.; Dinter, Cory M. (2017-11-21). Wong, William Oki (ed.). "Microbial-caddisfly bioherm association from the Lower Cretaceous Shinekhudag Formation, Mongolia: Earliest record of plant armoring in fossil caddisfly cases". PLOS ONE. 12 (11): e0188194. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1288194A. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0188194. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 5697877. PMID 29161280.
- ^ a b Barsbold, R.; Perle, A. (1984). "On first new find of a primitive orithomimosaur from the Cretaceous of the MPR". Paleontological Journal. 2: 121−123.
- ^ Kobayashi, Y.; Barsbold, R. (2005). "Anatomy of Harpymimus okladnikovi Barsbold and Perle 1984 (Dinosauria; Theropoda) of Mongolia". In Carpenter, K. (ed.). The carnivorous dinosaurs. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. pp. 97–126.
- ^ a b c Rozhdestvensky, A. K. (1952). "Открытие игуанодона в Монголии" [Discovery of an iguanodon in Mongolia]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR (in Russian). 84 (6): 1243−1246.
- ^ Norman, D. B. (1996). "On Asian ornithopods (Dinosauria, Ornithischia). 1. Iguanodon orientalis Rozhdestvensky, 1952". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 116 (2): 303−315. doi:10.1006/zjls.1996.0021.
- ^ Paul, G. S. (2008). "A revised taxonomy of the iguanodont dinosaur genera and species" (PDF). Cretaceous Research. 29 (2): 192−216. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2007.04.009.
- ^ Kalandadze, N. N.; Kurzanov, S. M. (1974). "Lower Cretaceous terrestrial vertebrate localities of Mongolia". In Kramarenko, N. N.; Luvsandansan, B.; Voronin, Y. I.; Barsbold, R.; Rozhdestve, A. K. (eds.). Mesozoic and Cenozoic Faunas and Biostratigraphy of Mongolia. The Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition, Transactions. pp. 288–295.
- ^ Watabe, M.; Suzuki, S. (2000). "Report on the Japan - Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1993". Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin. 1: 17−29.
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