Flaming Cliffs

{{Short description|Region of the Gobi Desert, Mongolia}}

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The Flaming Cliffs site (also known as Bayanzag, Bayn Dzak)Colbert, Edwin Harris (1984) The great dinosaur hunters and their discoveries Courier Dover, New York,[https://books.google.com/books?id=oOztIITBo_gC&pg=RA2-PA210 page 210], {{ISBN|978-0-486-24701-4}}; revised edition of Men and Dinosaurs 1st edition 1968 ({{langx|mn|Баянзаг}} rich in saxaul), with the alternative Mongolian name of {{langx|mn|Улаан Эрэг}} (red cliffs), is a region of the Gobi Desert in the Ömnögovi Province of Mongolia, in which important fossil finds have been made. It was given this name by American paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, who visited in the 1920s. The area is most famous for yielding the first discovery of dinosaur eggs. Other finds in the area include specimens of Velociraptor{{cite web|title=Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs|url=http://www.dinosaurcollector.150m.com/flamecliff.htm|publisher=dinosaurcollector.150m.com|accessdate=2010-12-16|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121226232745/http://www.dinosaurcollector.150m.com/flamecliff.htm|archivedate=2012-12-26}} and eutherian mammals.Kielan-Jaworowska, Zofia (1969) [http://palaeontologia.pan.pl/Archive/1968-19_171-191_22-27.pdf "Preliminary data on the Upper Cretaceous eutherian mammals from Bayn Dzak, Gobi Dert"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140112213932/http://palaeontologia.pan.pl/Archive/1968-19_171-191_22-27.pdf |date=2014-01-12 }} Palaeontologia Polonica No. 19: pp. 171–206 It exposes rocks of the Djadochta Formation. It is illegal to remove fossils from the area without appropriate permits.{{cite book|last=Bright |first=Michael |title=1001 Natural Wonders You Must See Before You Die |year=2010 |publisher=Cassell Illustrated|location=London|isbn=9781844036745|page=625}}

The nickname refers to the red or orange color of the sandstone cliffs (especially at a sunset).[https://books.google.com/books?id=u1Y-51tTJ78C&q=Flaming+Cliffs&pg=PA296 Jane Blunden . Mongolia: the Bradt travel guide. 2008]