Flaming Cliffs

Bayanzag (Mongolian Баянзаг, bayandsag, rich in Saxaul, even Flaming Cliffs ) is a rugged rock formation in the Gobi Desert in the Mongolian Gobi Aimag Ömnö, in whose vicinity significant fossil finds have been made. It is part of Djadokhta lineup.

Naming

Your popular in the English -speaking world the name Flaming Cliffs ( " burning rocks " ) received the rock - the bright orange rock because - of the American " dinosaur hunter " Roy Chapman Andrews, who explored during an expedition of the American Museum of Natural History in the 1920s. The Mongolian designation refers to the abundant here Saxaulpflanze.

Fossil locality

The area around Bayanzag is especially known for the nests of dinosaurs that had been found in the rocks of the Cretaceous Djadokhta lineup at one of the expedition led by Andrews for the first time; Reports of eggs remains from the south of France, there were already previously ( Matheron 1869). The eggs were assigned to Protoceratops, but this interpretation was later disputed, as the findings of this Cerato Piers are limited in contrast to Eityp right. An origin of the eggs of Hadrosauroidea seems possible, but were able to clarify no embryos in the eggs are identified. In other regions reach similar nest finds only since 1979. Too fossils popularized by the films of the Jurassic Park series, about truthuhngroßen predatory dinosaur ( theropod ) Velociraptor were discovered at Bayanzag.