Kugitang Svita Explained

Kugitang Svita
Type:	Formation or group
Age:	Late Oxfordian-early Kimmeridgian ~
Period:	Kimmeridgian
Prilithology:	Limestone
Otherlithology:	Mudstone
Namedfor:	Kugitang, Kugitang Mountains
Region:	Lebap (Turkmenistan) Kugitang, Shirkent (Tajikistan) Kashkadarya (Uzbekistan)
Country:	Turkmenistan (Group) Tajikistan Uzbekistan (Formation)
Coordinates:	38.5°N 68.6°W
Paleocoordinates:	43.2°N 73.2°W
Subunits:	Kurek Formation (Turkmenistan)

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]

Fossil content

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

Dinosaurs

• Chodjapilesaurus krimholzi
• Gissarosaurus tetrafalangensis

Ichnofossils

• Megalosauripus uzbekistanicus
• Mirsosauropus tursunzadei
• Regarosauropus manovi
• Shirkentosauropus shirkentensis
• Therangospodus pandemicus

Insects

• Shurabia hissarica

Reef fauna

• Apocladophyllia koniakensis
• Calamophylliopsis kyrvakarensis
• Dorsoplicathyris farcinata
• Kobyastraea lomontiana
• Tubegatanella repmanae
• Bivalvia indet.

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
  • List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera
• 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

Bibliography

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

Notes and References

1. Weishampel et al., 2004, pp.517-607
2. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=Kugitang&group_formation_member=Kugitang Kugitang Group
3. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Kugitang&group_formation_member=Kugitang Kugitang Formation