Tashkurgan I tracksite: Late/Upper Oxfordian - Early/Lower Kimmeridgian, Uzbekistan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Eubrontidae
Megalosauropus uzbekistanicus Gabuniya and Kurbatov 1982
Nessov 1995 3 individuals
recombined as Megalosauripus uzbekistanicus
see common names

Geography
Country:Uzbekistan State/province:Kashkadarya
Coordinates: 38.8° North, 67.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.7° North, 72.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:1951 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Oxfordian - Early/Lower Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval:157.90000 - 152.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Kugitang Formation:Kurek
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 2 track horizons within the uppermost layer of limestones of the Kurek Formation of the Kugitang Series
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Associated major elements:many
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Hissar, Akkabak
Database number:59635
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-04-05 08:21:34 Last modified:2021-11-10 12:28:17
Access level:the public Released:2006-04-05 08:21:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

69310. S. I. Novoselskiy and T. A. Novoselskaya. 1993. Novoye sledonosnoye pole yuzhnogo Gissara [New track-bearing deposit in southern Gissar]. In O. S. Vyalov & M. A. Fedonkin (ed.), Sledy Zhiznedeyatelbnosti Drevnikh Organizmov [Trace Fossils of Extinct Organisms] 97-103 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

42605 M. G. Lockley, C. A. Meyer, R. Schultz-Pittman and G. Forney. 1996. Late Jurassic dinosaur tracksites from Central Asia: a preliminary report on the world's longest trackways. In M. Morales (ed.), The Continental Jurassic. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 60:137-140 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78585 C. A. Meyer. 1998. Jura- und kreidezeitliehe Dinosaurierfährten aus Zentral-Asien (Usbekistan, Turkmenistan) [Jurassic and Cretaceous dinosaur tracks from Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan)]. Natur und Museum 128(12):393-402 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
16510ETE L. A. Nessov. 1995. Dinozavri severnoi Yevrazii: Novye dannye o sostave kompleksov, ekologii i paleobiogeografii [Dinosaurs of northern Eurasia: new data about assemblages, ecology, and paleobiogeography]. Institute for Scientific Research on the Earth's Crust, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg 1-156 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]