Shinekhudag Formation

Shinekhudag Formation
Stratigraphic range: Berriasian–Valanginian
TypeGeological formation
UnderliesKhukhtek Formation[1]
OverliesTsagaantsav Svita
Lithology
PrimarySandstone, argillite, marl, clay
Location
RegionDundgov
CountryMongolia

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]

  1. ^ Okada, H.; Mateer, N.J. (2000). Cretaceous Environments of Asia. Elsevier Science. p. 62. ISBN 9780080530093. Retrieved 2015-05-17.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.