Kakanaut Formation
Late Cretaceous Siberian formation with dinosaur fossils and ancient plant orders
| Kakanaut Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Maastrichtian ~70–66 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
| Type | Geological formation |
| Underlies | Danian marine deposits |
| Overlies | Maastrichtian marine deposits |
| Thickness | 1,000 m (3,300 ft) |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Sandstone |
| Other | Volcaniclastic |
| Location | |
| Coordinates |   Kakanaut Formation (Russia) |
The Kakanaut Formation is a geological formation in Siberia, whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian). Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1][2] The flora of the formation is relictual, containing some of the youngest remains of the extinct plant orders Bennettitales and Czekanowskiales.[3][4]
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References
- ^ Weishampel et al., 2004, pp.593-600
- ^ Godefroit et al., 2009
- ^ Gnilovskaya, Anastasia A.; Golovneva, Lina B. (February 2018). "The Late Cretaceous Pterophyllum (Bennettitales) in the North-East of Russia". Cretaceous Research. 82: 56–63. Bibcode:2018CrRes..82...56G. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2017.09.013.
- ^ Zolina, Anastasia; Golovneva, Lina; Nosova, Natalya; Grabovskiy, Alexander (2020-12-01). "A new species of Phoenicopsis (Leptostrobales) from the Maastrichtian–Danian of Chukotka, Russia". Geobios. 63: 67–75. Bibcode:2020Geobi..63...67Z. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2020.09.002. ISSN 0016-6995. S2CID 228928283.
Bibliography
- Godefroit, P.; L. Golovneva; S. Shchepetov; G. García, and P. Alekseev. 2009. The last polar dinosaurs: high diversity of latest Cretaceous arctic dinosaurs in Russia. Naturwissenschaften 96. 495-501. Accessed 2019-03-29.
- Weishampel, David B.; Peter Dodson, and Halszka Osmólska (eds.). 2004. The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, 1–880. Berkeley: University of California Press. Accessed 2019-02-21.ISBN 0-520-24209-2
