Turginskaya Svita

Turginskaya Svita
Stratigraphic range: Early Cretaceous, Berriasian–Hauterivian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Type	Geological formation
Location
Region	Buryatia
Country	Russia

The Turginskaya Svita is an Early Cretaceous period geologic formation located in Russia. Dinosaur remains were recovered from it as early as 1915, ^[1] including partial theropod remains. ^[2]

Paleofauna

• Theropoda (previously informally known as Allosaurus? sibiricus , Antrodemus? sibiricus and currently known as Chilantaisaurus? sibiricus ) ^{[2] [3]}

See also

• Earth sciences portal
• Paleontology portal
• Dinosaurs portal

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

References

1. Riabinin, 1915. Zamtka o dinozavry ise Zabaykalya [A note on a dinosaur from the trans-Baikal region]. Trudy Geologichyeskago Muszeyah Imeni Petra Velikago Imperatorskoy Academiy Nauk. 8(5), 133-140.
2. Weishampel, David B.; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Early Cretaceous, Asia)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria , 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 563-570. ISBN   0-520-24209-2.
3. "Coelurosauria".