Kakanaut Formation
The Kakanaut Formation is a geological formation in Siberia, whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian). Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. The flora of the formation is relictual, containing some of the youngest remains of the extinct plant orders Bennettitales and Czekanowskiales.
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References
- ^ Weishampel et al., 2004, pp.593-600
- ^ Godefroit et al., 2009
- ^ Gnilovskaya, Anastasia A.; Golovneva, Lina B. (February 2018). "The Late Cretaceous Pterophyllum (Bennettitales) in the North-East of Russia". Cretaceous Research. 82: 56–63. Bibcode:2018CrRes..82...56G. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2017.09.013.
- ^ Zolina, Anastasia; Golovneva, Lina; Nosova, Natalya; Grabovskiy, Alexander (2020-12-01). "A new species of Phoenicopsis (Leptostrobales) from the Maastrichtian–Danian of Chukotka, Russia". Geobios. 63: 67–75. Bibcode:2020Geobi..63...67Z. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2020.09.002. ISSN 0016-6995. S2CID 228928283.
Bibliography
- Godefroit, P.; Golovneva, L.; Shchepetov, S.; García, G.; Alekseev, P. (2009), "The last polar dinosaurs: high diversity of latest Cretaceous arctic dinosaurs in Russia", Naturwissenschaften, 96 (4): 495–501, Bibcode:2009NW.....96..495G, doi:10.1007/s00114-008-0499-0, PMID 19089398, retrieved 2019-03-29
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (2004), The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1–880, ISBN 0-520-24209-2, retrieved 2019-02-21