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
- Alectrosaurus sp.
- Aralosaurus tuberiferus
- Aralazhdarcho bostobensis[2]
- Arstanosaurus akkurganensis (hadrosauridae indet)
- Samrukia nessovi
- Khunnuchelys lophorhothon (a trionychid turtle, known from remains initially thought to belong to a hadrosaurid dinosaur and classified as cf. Lophorhothon sp)[3]
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.
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ 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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