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Kugitang Svita

The Kugitang Formation or Group (Russian: Kugitang Svita) is an Oxfordian geologic formation in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and a geologic group in Turkmenistan. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.

Fossil content

Among the following fossils have been found in the Kugitang Svita:

Color key
Taxon Reclassified taxon Taxon falsely reported as present Dubious taxon or junior synonym Ichnotaxon Ootaxon Morphotaxon
Notes
Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; crossed out taxa are discredited.

Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs of the Kugitang Svita
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images
Chodjapilesaurus C. krimholzi
Gissarosaurus G. tetrafalangensis

Ichnofossils

Ichnofossils of the Kugitang Svita
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images
Megalosauripus M. uzbekistanicus
Mirsosauropus M. tursunzadei
Regarosauropus R. manovi
Shirkentosauropus S. shirkentensis
Therangospodus T. pandemicus

Insects

Insects of the Kugitang Svita
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images
Shurabia S. hissarica

Invertebrates

Invertebrates of the Kugitang Svita
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images
Apocladophyllia A. koniakensis
Bivalvia Indet. Indeterminate
Calamophylliopsis C. kyrvakarensis
Dorsoplicathyris D. farcinata
Kobyastraea K. lomontiana
Tubegatanella T. repmanae

See also

References

  1. ^ Weishampel et al., 2004, pp.517-607
  2. ^ Kugitang Group at Fossilworks.org
  3. ^ Kugitang Formation at Fossilworks.org

Bibliography

  • 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

Further reading

  • F. Fanti, M. Contessi, A. Nigarov and P. Esenov. 2013. New data on two large dinosaur tracksites from the Upper Jurassic of eastern Turkmenistan (Central Asia). Ichnos 20:54-71
  • D. S. Aristov, T. Wappler, and A. P. Rasnitsyn. 2009. New and Little-Known Grylloblattids of the Family Geinitziidae (Insecta: Grylloblattida) from the Triassic and Jurassic of Europe, Asia, and South Africa. Paleontological Journal 43:418-424
  • V. P. Novikov and M. R. Dzhalilov. 1988. Litologicheskaya interpretatsiya mestonakhozhdeniy sledov dinozavrov i Tadzhikistane [A lithological interpretation of localities with dinosaurian traces in Tajikistan]. In T. N. Bogdanova, L. I. Khosatzky, & A. A. Istchenko (eds.), Sledy Zhiznedeyatel'nosti i Dinamika Sredy v Drevnikh Biotopakh. Trudy XXX Sessii Vsesoyuznogo Paleontologicheskogo Obshchestva i VII Sessii Ukrainskogo Paleontologicheskogo Obshchestva [Fossil Traces of Vital Activity and Dynamics of the Environment in Ancient Biotopes. Transactions of the XXX Session of All-Union Paleontological Society and the VII Session of the Ukrainian Paleontological Society]. Naukova Dumka, Kiev 58–69
  • S. T. Khusanov. 1987. Pozdneyurskie skleraktinii rifogennykh otlozheniy yuzhnogo i zapadnogo Uzbekistana [Upper Jurassic Scleractinia from reefal buildups in southern and western Uzbekistan] 1-92