Tsagaantsav Svita

Tsagaantsav Svita
Stratigraphic range: Berriasian - Valanginian
Type Geological formation
Location
Region Khovd Province
Country Mongolia

The Tsagaantsav Svita is an Early Cretaceous (Berriasian to Valanginian) geologic formation. Indeterminate sauropod and psittacosaurid remains have been recovered from the formation.[1] Remains of the pterosaur Noripterus, which were originally given their own genus, "Phobetor" have also been recovered from it.[2][3]

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Footnotes

  1. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
  2. Barrett, P.M., Butler, R.J., Edwards, N.P., & Milner, A.R. Pterosaur distribution in time and space: an atlas. p61-107. in Flugsaurier: Pterosaur papers in honour of Peter Wellnhofer. 2008. Hone, D.W.E., and Buffetaut, E. (eds). Zitteliana B, 28. 264pp.
  3. Lü, J., Azuma, Y., Dong, Z., Barsbold, R., Kobayashi, Y., and Lee, Y.-N. (2009), "New material of dsungaripterid pterosaurs (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) from western Mongolia and its palaeoecological implications." Geological Magazine, 146(5): 690-700.

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