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 PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Dinosaur Plateau
Type	Formation or group
Sub-units	Dinosaur Plateau (Turkmenistan) Kurek Formation (Turkmenistan)
Lithology
Primary	Limestone
Other	Mudstone
Location
Coordinates	38.5°N 68.6°E / 38.5; 68.6
Approximate paleocoordinates	43.2°N 73.2°E / 43.2; 73.2
Region	Lebap (Turkmenistan) Kugitang, Shirkent (Tajikistan) Kashkadarya (Uzbekistan)
Country	Turkmenistan (Group)  Tajikistan  Uzbekistan (Formation)
Type section
Named for	Kugitang, 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

• 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

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