Late Cretaceous Siberian formation with dinosaur fossils and ancient plant orders
Kakanaut Formation
Stratigraphic range: Maastrichtian ~70–66 Ma
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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
62°54′N177°06′E / 62.9°N 177.1°E / 62.9; 177.1
Approximate paleocoordinates
75°42′N179°00′E / 75.7°N 179.0°E / 75.7; 179.0
Region
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Country
Russia
Type section
Named for
Kakanaut River
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]
^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.
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