Kugitang Svita

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Kugitang Svita
Stratigraphic range: Late Oxfordian-early Kimmeridgian
~160–155  Ma
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Type Formation or group
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Lithology
Primary Limestone
Other Mudstone
Location
Coordinates 38°30′N68°36′E / 38.5°N 68.6°E / 38.5; 68.6
Approximate paleocoordinates 43°12′N73°12′E / 43.2°N 73.2°E / 43.2; 73.2
Region Lebap (Turkmenistan)
Kugitang, Shirkent (Tajikistan)
Kashkadarya (Uzbekistan)
CountryFlag of Turkmenistan.svg  Turkmenistan (Group)
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Flag of Uzbekistan.svg  Uzbekistan (Formation)
Type section
Named for Kugitang, Kugitang Mountains
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Kugitang Svita (Uzbekistan)

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]

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Fossil content

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

Dinosaurs
Ichnofossils
Insects
Reef fauna

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References

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

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