Earth:Ialovachsk Formation

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Short description: Late Cretaceous geologic formation in Central Asia
Ialovachsk Formation
Stratigraphic range: Santonian
85 Ma
↓
TypeGeological formation
Lithology
PrimarySandstone
OtherConglomerate
Location
Coordinates [ ⚑ ] : 40°12′N 71°42′E / 40.2°N 71.7°E / 40.2; 71.7
Paleocoordinates [ ⚑ ] 34°54′N 65°48′E / 34.9°N 65.8°E / 34.9; 65.8
RegionJalal-Abad, Osh
Sughd
Fergana
Country Kyrgyzstan
 Tajikistan
 Uzbekistan
ExtentFergana Valley & Range
Ialovachsk Formation is located in Kyrgyzstan
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Ialovachsk Formation (Kyrgyzstan)

The Ialovachsk or Yalovach Formation is a geologic formation in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan dating to the Santonian age of the Cretaceous period. [1]

Fossil content

Fossil dinosaur eggs[1] as well as pterosaur, dinosaur,[2][3] turtle[4] and crocodyliforme[5][6] remains have been recovered from the formation.[7]

The following fossils have been reported from the formation:


Amphibians
Mammals
  • ?Kulbeckia kulbecke
Turtles
Dinosaurs
Other reptiles


See also

  • List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
    • List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur trace fossils
      • Dinosaur eggs

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Weishampel et al., 2004, pp.517-607
  2. ↑ Alifanov, V. R.; Averianov, A. O. (January 2006). "On the finding of ornithomimid dinosaurs (Saurischia, Ornithomimosauria) in the Upper Cretaceous beds of Tajikistan". Paleontological Journal 40 (1): 103–108. doi:10.1134/s0031030106010126. ISSN 0031-0301. 
  3. ↑ Averianov, A. O.; Alifanov, V. R. (September 2012). "New data on duck-billed dinosaurs (Ornithischia, Hadrosauridae) from the upper cretaceous of Tajikistan". Paleontological Journal 46 (5): 512–519. doi:10.1134/s0031030112050036. ISSN 0031-0301. 
  4. ↑ Vitek, Natasha S.; Danilov, Igor G. (2010-03-24). "New material and a reassessment of soft-shelled turtles (Trionychidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Middle Asia and Kazakhstan". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (2): 383–393. doi:10.1080/02724631003617548. ISSN 0272-4634. http://doc.rero.ch/record/31484/files/PAL_E571.pdf. 
  5. ↑ Kuzmin, Ivan T.; Skutschas, Pavel P.; Boitsova, Elizaveta A.; Sues, Hans-Dieter (2018). "Revision of the large crocodyliform Kansajsuchus (Neosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Central Asia". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185 (2): 335–387. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zly027. 
  6. ↑ Storrs, Glenn W.; Efimov, Mikhail B. (2000). "Mesozoic crocodyliforms of north-central Eurasia". in Benton, Michael J.. The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 402–419. ISBN 978-0-521-55476-3. 
  7. ↑ Yalovach Formation at Fossilworks.org

Bibliography

  • Weishampel, David B.; Peter Dodson, and Halszka Osmólska (eds.). 2004. The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, 1–880. Berkeley: University of California Press. Accessed 2019-02-21. ISBN:0-520-24209-2

Further reading

  • I. G. Danilov, V. B. Sukhanov, and E. V. Syromyatnikova. 2011. New Asiatic materials on turtles of the family Adocidae with a review of the adocid record in Asia. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences 315(2):101-132
  • N. N. Bakhurina and D. M. Unwin. 1995. a survey of pterosaurs from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia. Historical Biology 10:197-245
  • L. A. Nessov. 1995. Dinozavri severnoi Yevrazii: Novye dannye o sostave kompleksov, ekologii i paleobiogeografii [Dinosaurs of northern Eurasia: new data about assemblages, ecology, and paleobiogeography]. Institute for Scientific Research on the Earth's Crust, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg 1-156



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