Kankazgan Formation
The Kankazgan Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in Kazakhstan.
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Vertebrate paleofauna
Fossils that have been recovered from the formation include indeterminate dromaeosaurids, ornithomimids, ceratopsians, scapherpetonids, and tyrannosauroids, but also fossils of the azhdarchid pterosaur Azhdarcho.[1][2][3][4]
See also
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
Footnotes
- Averianov, A., Dyke, G., Danilov, I. and Skutschas, P. (2015) The paleoenvironments of azhdarchid pterosaurs localities in the Late Cretaceous of Kazakhstan. ZooKeys, 483, 59-80. (doi:10.3897/zookeys.483.9058).
- Weishampel, et al. (2004). Dinosaur distribution. Pp. 517-607.
- https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app54/app20080079.pdf
- KORDIKOVA, E. G., G. F. GUNNELL, P. D. POLLY, AND YU. B. KOVRIZHNYKH. 1996. Late Cretaceous and Paleocene vertebrate paleontology and stratigraphy in the North-eastern Aral Sea region, Kazakhstan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 16:46A.
References
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
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