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This is a list of dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered from Asia, excluding India, ... Possibly a close relative of the Mongolian Abdarainurus [48]
Cretaceous Mongolia is one of the strangest and best preserved of all Mesozoic ecosystems.The shifting sand of what was, even then, the Gobi Desert have ensured that fossils of the animals that lived there can be found in exactly the position in which they were buried, with most of the bones together.
Mongolia is known to be the source of priceless paleontological discoveries. The first scientifically confirmed dinosaur eggs were found in Mongolia during the 1923 expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, led by Roy Chapman Andrews.
The Fighting Dinosaurs is a fossil specimen which was found in the Late Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia in 1971. It preserves a Protoceratops andrewsi and Velociraptor mongoliensis trapped in combat about 74 million years ago [1] and provides direct evidence of predatory behavior in non-avian dinosaurs. The specimen has caused much ...
Cretaceous-aged dinosaur fossil localities of Mongolia.Djadochta localities at area B. The Djadochta formation was first documented and explored—though only a single locality—during paleontological expeditions of the American Museum of Natural History in 1922–1925, which were part of the Central Asiatic expeditions.
The Nemegt Formation (also known as Nemegtskaya Svita) is a geological formation in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, dating to the Late Cretaceous. The formation consists of river channel sediments and contains fossils of fish, turtles, crocodilians, and a diverse fauna of dinosaurs, including birds.
Cretaceous-aged dinosaur fossil localities of Mongolia; Deinocheirus fossils have been collected in the Altan Ula III, IV, and Bugiin Tsav localities of area A (left). The first known fossil remains of Deinocheirus were discovered by Polish palaeontologist Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska on July 9, 1965, at the Altan Ula III site (coordinates) in the Nemegt Basin of the Gobi Desert
Opisthocoelicaudia / ɒ ˌ p ɪ s θ oʊ s ɪ l ɪ ˈ k ɔː d i ə / is a genus of sauropod dinosaur of the Late Cretaceous Period discovered in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia.The type species is Opisthocoelicaudia skarzynskii.