Bostobe Svita
| Bostobe Svita Stratigraphic range: Late Cretaceous (Santonian - Campanian) | |
|---|---|
| Type | Geological formation |
| Location | |
| Region | Asia |
| Country | Kazakhstan |
The Bostobe Svita is a geological formation in Kazakhastan whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1]
Vertebrate paleofauna
- Theropods:
- Pterosaurs:
- Mammals:
- Beleutinus orlovi
- Zhalmouzia bazhanovi
- Parazhelestes sp.[4]
- Turtles:
- Khunnuchelys lophorhothon (a trionychid turtle, known from remains initially thought to belong to a hadrosaurid dinosaur and classified as cf. Lophorhothon sp)[5]
See also
References
- ↑ Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Cretaceous, Asia)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 593-600. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
- 1 2 3 Averianov, A., 2016. Frontal bones of non-avian theropod dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian-?Campanian) Bostobe Formation of the northeastern Aral Sea region, Kazakhstan. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 53 (2) 168-175. http://cjes.geoscienceworld.org/content/53/2/168
- ↑ A. O. Averianov (2004), “New Data on Cretaceous Flying Reptiles (Pterosauria) of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan,” Paleontol. Zh., No. 4, 73–83 (Paleontol. J. 38 (4), 426–436)
- ↑ A. O. Averianov, J. D. Archibald, P. P. Skutschas and G. J. Dyke. 2014. New mammal remains from the Late Cretaceous Bostobe Formation (northeast Aral Sea Region, Kazakhstan). Palaeoworld 23:314-320.
- ↑ Igor G. Danilov, Natasha S. Vitek, Alexander O. Averianov and Vadim N. Glinskiy (2014). "A new softshelled trionychid turtle of the genus Khunnuchelys from the Upper Cretaceous Bostobe Formation of Kazakhstan". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. in press. doi:10.4202/app.2013.0045.
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