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.[1]

Kugitang Svita
Stratigraphic range: Late Oxfordian-early Kimmeridgian
~160–155 Ma
TypeFormation or group
Sub-unitsKurek Formation (Turkmenistan)
Lithology
PrimaryLimestone
OtherMudstone
Location
Coordinates38.5°N 68.6°E / 38.5; 68.6
Approximate paleocoordinates43.2°N 73.2°E / 43.2; 73.2
RegionLebap (Turkmenistan)
Kugitang, Shirkent (Tajikistan)
Kashkadarya (Uzbekistan)
Country Turkmenistan (Group)
 Tajikistan
 Uzbekistan (Formation)
Type section
Named forKugitang, Kugitang Mountains
Kugitang Svita (Uzbekistan)

Fossil content

Among the following fossils have been found in the Kugitang Svita:[2][3]

Dinosaurs
  • Chodjapilesaurus krimholzi
  • Gissarosaurus tetrafalangensis
Ichnofossils
Insects
  • Shurabia hissarica
Reef fauna

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.; Peter Dodson, and Halszka Osmólska (eds.). 2004. The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, 1–880. Berkeley: University of California Press. Accessed 2019-02-21. ISBN 0-520-24209-2

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
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