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The Hühteeg Svita is a geological formation in Mongolia whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous

Early Cretaceous

The Early Cretaceous or the Lower Cretaceous , is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous...

. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.

Dinosaurs

Dinosaur Dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of... s reported from the Hühteeg Svita
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Material	Notes	Images
Altirhinus Altirhinus Altirhinus is a genus of iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of Mongolia.-Description:Altirhinus was herbivorous and bipedal when walking or running, but probably became quadrupedal when feeding from the ground. According to the original description, the entire body...	A. kurzanovi			"Complete skull, partial skull, associated postcrania, several individuals."
Asiatosaurus Asiatosaurus Asiatosaurus was a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur which lived during the early Cretaceous. Its fossils have been found in China and Mongolia. It is known only from teeth, making it difficult to rely on information until more specimens are found to expand our knowledge.The type species, A....	A. mongoliensis			Teeth.	Indeterminate Sauropod.
Iguanodon Iguanodon Iguanodon is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids and the ornithopods' culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs...	I. orientalis				An indeterminate Iguanodont Iguanodont Iguanodonts were herbivorous dinosaurs that lived from the mid-Jurassic to Late Cretaceous. Some members include Camptosaurus, Callovosaurus, Iguanodon, Ouranosaurus, and the hadrosaurids or "duck-billed dinosaurs". Iguanodonts were one of the first groups of dinosaurs to be found... . A referred skull was reclassified as Altirhinus.
Indeterminate Iguanodont
Indeterminate Theropod
Indeterminate Troodontid
Prodeinodon Prodeinodon Prodeinodon is a dubious genus of theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China and Mongolia. Three species have been identified, all three known only from tooth fragments showing no diagnostic features, making them difficult to classify, though they may belong to a carnosaur.The type...	P. mongoliensis			Several teeth, fragmentary tibia, fragmentary fibula.	Indeterminate Theropod.
Protiguanodon	P. mongoliensis				Reclassified as a species of Psittacosaurus, Psittacosaurus protiguanodonensis.
Psittacosaurus Psittacosaurus Psittacosaurus is a genus of psittacosaurid ceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of what is now Asia, about 130 to 100 million years ago. It is notable for being the most species-rich dinosaur genus...	P. mongoliensis
	P. protiguanodonensis				Junior synonym of P. mongoliensis.
Shamosaurus Shamosaurus Shamosaurus is an extinct genus of basal ankylosaurid ankylosaur from Early Cretaceous deposits of Höövör, Mongolia. Shamosaurus is known from the holotype PIN N 3779/2 complete skull and jaw and the paratypes include partial skeleton remains and an armor. It was collected from the...	S. scutatus			"[Two] skulls [and one] partial skeleton."
Shanag Shanag Shanag is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of Mongolia.The type species of Shanag is Shanag ashile. It was named and described by Alan Turner, Sunny Hai-Ching Hwang and Mark Norell in 2007. The generic name refers to the black-hatted dancers in the...	S. ashile

Mammals

Mammal Mammal Mammals are members of a class of air-breathing vertebrate animals characterised by the possession of endothermy, hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands functional in mothers with young... s of the Hühteeg Svita
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Material	Notes	Images
Gobiconodon Gobiconodon Gobiconodon is an extinct genus of carnivorous mammal. It weighed 10–12 pounds and measured 18-20 inches, and might have resembled a large and robust opossum.-Species:...	G. hopsoni		Cannonball Member of Öösh Formation, possibly equivalent of Tevsh Formation.	2 upper and lower jaws (PSS-MAE 140 (Holotype) & PSS-MAE 139)

Pterosaurs

Pterosaur Pterosaur Pterosaurs were flying reptiles of the clade or order Pterosauria. They existed from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous Period . Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight... s of the Hühteeg Svita
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Material	Notes	Images
Indeterminate Tapejaroid				"Single Vertebra".

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