Also known as Yaknob, Yagnob

Where: Kulyabskaya Oblast', Tajikistan (39.2° N, 68.6° E: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 73.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dzhirukut Formation, Middle Jurassic to Middle Jurassic (174.7 - 145.0 Ma)

• lower part of the Dzhirukut Formation; three track-bearing levels

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; gray sandstone and red conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by Romanovskiy, Rozhdestvensky, Kochnev, Nessov in 1882, 1961-1962, 1964, 1980; reposited in the PIN

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

• = Romanovsky.

•R & K 67: "It was

•discovered back in the last century by G. D. Romanovsky (1882), who described

•dinosaur footprints on a sandstone slab. Subsequently, during the construction

•of the road, the slab was destroyed and the traces were considered lost, until in

•1961 the geologist E. A. Kochnev discovered them again in the form of a whole

•layer, having made the first collections. In 1962 and 1964 this locality was

•examined by A.K. Rozhdestvensky (1964), who obtained several more

•footprints."

Primary reference: G. D. Romanovsky. 1882. Geologicheskiy kharakter' Saradanskago burougol'nago v' Zeravshanskom' okrug' [Geological disposition of the Sarvadan Coal Formation in Zeravshan county]. Zapiski Imperatorskago S.-Peterburgskago Mineralogicheskago Obshchestva, vtoraya seriya 17:276-296 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 53144: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.09.2005

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