Shirkent I tracksite (Cretaceous of Tajikistan)

Also known as Shirkent-1

Where: Tajikistan (38.6° N, 68.2° E: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 64.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shirabad Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• lower part of the Shirabad (Shirbad) Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; gypsiferous grainstone and evaporite

• "coastal carbonates and evaporites"

•gypsum-bearing sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by S. Zakharov

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• two trackways (7 tracks)

Primary reference: S. A. Zakharov. 1964. O Senomanskom dinozavre sledy kotorogo obnaruzheny v doline R. Shirkent [On the Cenomanian dinosaurs, traces of which were found in the Shirkent valley]. Paleontologiya Tadzhikistana 1964:31-35 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59645: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 05.04.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilipedia
 Saurischipedida - Megalosauripodidae
"Macropodosaurus gravis n. gen. n. sp." = Macropodosauropus gravis
"Macropodosaurus gravis n. gen. n. sp." = Macropodosauropus gravis Zakharov 1964
tracks