Kugitang Svita

Kugitang Svita
Stratigraphic range: Late Oxfordian-early Kimmeridgian ~
Dinosaur Plateau
Type	Formation or group
Sub-units	Dinosaur Plateau (Turkmenistan) Kurek Formation (Turkmenistan)
Lithology
Primary	Limestone
Other	Mudstone
Location
Coordinates	38°30′N 68°36′E / 38.5°N 68.6°E / 38.5; 68.6
Approximate paleocoordinates	43°12′N 73°12′E / 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)

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]

Among the following fossils have been found in the Kugitang Svita:^[2][3]

• 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

• 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)

• 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