Shirabad Formation
{{short description|Geologic formation in Tajikistan}}
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| type = Geological formation
| period = Albian
| age = Late Albian
~{{fossil range|105|100}}
| prilithology = Sandstone
| otherlithology = Gypsum
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| country = Tajikistan
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| lon_deg = 68.2
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The Shirabad Formation ({{Clarify|Russian: Shirabad Svita|date=October 2020}}) is a late Albian geologic formation in Tajikistan.
Fossil content
Fossil ankylosaur tracks described as Macropodosauropus gravis have been reported from the formation.Weishampel et al., 2004, pp.517-607Zakharov, 1964
See also
References
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= Bibliography =
- {{citation |last1=Weishampel |first1=David B. |author2-link=Peter Dodson |last2=Dodson |first2=Peter |author3-link=Halszka Osmólska |last3=Osmólska |first3=Halszka |year=2004 |title=The Dinosauria, 2nd edition |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vtZFDb_iw40C |publisher=Berkeley: University of California Press |pages=1–880 |accessdate=2019-02-21 |isbn=0-520-24209-2 |author1-link=David B. Weishampel }}
- {{citation |last=Zakharov |first=S.A |year=1964 |title=O Senomanskom dinozavre sledy kotorogo obnaruzheny v doline R. Shirkent [On the Cenomanian dinosaurs, traces of which were found in the Shirkent valley] |journal=Paleontologiya Tadzhikistana |volume=1964 |pages=31–35}}
Category:Geologic formations of Tajikistan
Category:Lower Cretaceous Series of Asia
Category:Shallow marine deposits