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:
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs of the Kugitang Svita | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
Chodjapilesaurus | C. krimholzi | |||||
Gissarosaurus | G. tetrafalangensis |
Ichnofossils
Ichnofossils of the Kugitang Svita | ||||||
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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 | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
Shurabia | S. hissarica |
Invertebrates
Invertebrates of the Kugitang Svita | ||||||
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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
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
- Bissekty Formation
- Bostobe Formation
- Qiketai, Toutunhe, Shishugou and Qigu Formations, fossiliferous formations of the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang
- Haifanggou Formation, Hebei Basin, Hebei
- Oxfordian formations
- Oxford Clay, England
- Tendaguru Formation, fossiliferous formation of Tanzania
- Cañadón Calcáreo Formation, fossiliferous formation of the Cañadón Asfalto Basin, Argentina
References
- ^ Weishampel et al., 2004, pp.517-607
- ^ Kugitang Group at Fossilworks.org
- ^ 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