Kurek Formation
geologic formation in Uzbekistan
The Kurek Formation (Russian: Kurek Svita) is a late Oxfordian (Late Jurassic) geologic formation of the Kugitang Svita in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Fossil sauropod tracks have been reported from the formation.
Etymology
The formation is named after Mount Kurek (2,280 metres (7,480 ft)), near Langar, Uzbekistan.
Description
The mudstones and limestones of the formation comprise a 2 centimetres (0.79 in) thick, massive micrite (mudstone) with sporadic and poorly preserved thin-walled bivalves. Also tracks were preserved at that were probably made in shallow water, showing, in some parts, ripple marks.
Fossil content
Among the following fossils have been found in the Kurek Formation:
Dinosaurs
Ichnofossils
Molluscs
Bivalves
See also
List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
List of stratigraphic units with sauropodomorph tracks
Sauropod tracks
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
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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
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
V. P. Novikov and M. R. Dzhalilov.
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