Genus: Alticephalosaurus ALIFANOV, 2000
Etymology:

Species: gilmorei (SULIMSKI, 1975) ALIFANOV, 2000
Etymology: In honor of Dr. Charles Gilmore, who first described Mongolian fossil lizards.
= Macrocephalosaurus gilmorei SULIMSKI, 1975
= Gilmoreteius gilmorei (SULIMSKI, 1975) LANGER, 1998

Holotype: ZPAL MgR-III/18

Locality: Hermiin Tsav I (Khermeen Tsav I), western Ömnögov (South Gobi), Mongolia.

Horizon: Barun Goyot Formation, = Red Beds of Khermeen Tsav.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Campanian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Almost complete skull and lower jaws.

Referred material:

ZPAL MgR-III/7: Skull with lower jaw of the occipital regions preserved and fragmentary lower jaws, 5 thoracal vertebrae.

ZPAL MgR-III/15: Left side of a skull, with fragments of upper and lower jaws.

ZPAL MgR-III/10: Strongly deformed skull with fragments of lower jaws, zygomatic arches, right quadrate and part of the postcranial skeleton.

ZPAL MgR-III/16: Considerably deformed frontal part of skull containing a fragment of lower jaw.

ZPAL MgR-III/21: Large skull, strongly mineralized, fragments of the lower jaw.

ZPAL MgR-III/20: Fragment of a small skull with palatal region, maxillae without teeth, part of occipital and base of brain case.

ZPAL MgR-III/8: Almost complete left lower jaw.

ZPAL MgR-III/7: Strongly damaged front part of a skull including part of palate and lower jaws with teeth.

ZPAL MgR-III/9: Frontal part of a skull containing left lower jaws.

ZPAL MgR-III/11: Strongly deformed skull with postcranial skeleton.

ZPAL MgR-III/28: Fragment of left lower jaw without teeth.

ZPAL MgR-III/29: Fragment of right lower jaw without teeth.

ZPAL MgR-III/13: Fragment of right lower jaw without teeth.

 


Locality: It is not certain whether this specimen comes from the locality of Nemegt or Khermeen Tsav I, Ömnögov (South Gobi), Mongolia.

Horizon: Barun Goyot Formation, = Red Beds of Khermeen Tsav.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Campanian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

ZPAL MgR-I/19: Anterior part of a skull with premaxilla, palate and part of the occipital regions preserved.