The Kugitang Formation or Group () 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.
Fossil content
Among the following fossils have been found in the Kugitang Svita:
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