Мизур Формирование
Мизур Формирование | |
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Стратиграфический диапазон : поздний Плиенсбахиан ~ Домерианский подостр | |
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Тип | Геологическое образование |
Суб-единицы | Члены Fypsy, Farkat и Mizur |
Лежит в основе | Неназванные торциан -аалленские слои |
Совпадения | Формирование урожая |
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Primary | Sandstone |
Other | Kaolinite, conglomerates, gravelstones, quartzsandstones |
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Coordinates | 42°51'02.1"N 44°03'25.3"E |
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Type section | |
Named for | The Town of Mizur |
Named by | Beznosov[1] |
Формирование Мизура представляет собой геологическую формацию , которая обнажается в Северной Осетии -Алании в Северном Кавказах , представляющая серию маргинальных морских и прибрежных слоев с воздействием наземного влияния. Это позднего плизбачского ( нижнего юрского ) возраста. [ 2 ] Это примечательно как единственное основное подразделение с сохраненными следами динозавров различных заказов, которые еще не приписаны каким -либо бетонным iChnogenus . [ 3 ]
Стратиграфия
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[ редактировать ]Участник Fytyn представляет более старые слои формирования, и в зависимости от обнажения, он перекрывает разрушенную поверхность палеозойских гранитов или кристаллических сланцев, или синемурийских вулкано -вулкано -вулкано -вулкановых пород формирования садона . [ 4 ] Этот член состоит в основном из продукта региональной эрозии более старых слоев - конгломератов, гравийных камней, кварцевых песчаников и других - которые были отложены в основном в континентальной обстановке. Это до нескольких десятков метров толщиной. [4]
Faraskat Member
[edit]In some outcrops the Fytyn Member is absent, as result of a regional uplift, with the sedimentary material transported from this area to central parts of the Greater Caucasus. Such material ended up accumulating on the Kistin Formation (Sinemurian–lower Pliensbachian), a unit that underlies in some sections the Faraskat Member.[4] The Faraskat section began its deposition when the local layers were accompanied by a slow subsidence of the land and sedimentation on the previously denuded area.[5] The Faraskat sequence represents the first proper coastal deposit in the unit and is composed by a mixture of coarse material, as well as wood fragments and siderite, with some layers being highly bioturbated.[4]
Mizur Member
[edit]The transition between the Faraskat and Mizur members is gradual, forming a large sedimentary cycle from clayey to sandstone-dominated rocks.[2] This layer represents the last unit of the formation and is dominated by fine-grained sandstone horizons, often low-angle crossbedding and scarce fine ripple marks, in contrast to the abundant large wave ripples.[2] This layers have abundant fragments of terrestrial vegetation in a highly oxidized state. The sedimentation peculiarities of the Mizur layers indicate their accumulation within a relatively wide and shallow shelf.[2] This layer is the only that has provided dinosaur footprints, as well ammonites and other invertebrates.[3]
Environment
[edit]The Mizur Member contains numerous fragments of plants — stems, wood, and leaves — suggesting a clear influence of nearby emerged settings. The vegetation in the coeval exposures along the Caucasus and adjacent regions were covered by coniferous forests with abundant underliying Bennettitales.[6] The spores and pollen in the sediments are dominated by bennettitales, which likely grew on nearshore lowlands.[7] The region hosts pollen of several plant groups, notably the Pinaceae, Podocarpaceae, Araucariaceae, with other such as Ginkgoaceae being less common. Beyond trees, the lowlands were covered by thermophilic ferns (Cibitium, Mattonia, Coniopteris), lycophytes (Selaginella), and horsetails (Neocalamites).[7] Invertebrate faunas are linked with the Mediterranean faunal region, with isotope ratios in some specimens (belemnites and brachiopods) yielding estimated average annual temperatures in the North Caucasian–Transcaucasian region of 21.4–23.5 °C; that is, a subtropical humid climate.[8][9]
Fossil content
[edit]Ammonites
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An ammonite, type member of the family Amaltheidae within Ammonitida. This genus is the main one used to gauge the depositional age of the local layers. |
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Dinosauria
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Dinosauropedida ichnog. indeterminate |
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Dinosaur footprints, unassigned to any concrete ichnogenus. A poorly preserved trackway composed of three tracks whose appearance is completely different to that of any other specimen recovered from the unit. |
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Sauropodomorphidia ichnog. indeterminate |
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Footprints |
Possible sauropodomorph footprints, unassigned to any concrete ichnogenus. A clear tridactyl track 12 cm wide is distinguished among several hollows. |
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Theropodipedia ichnog. indeterminate |
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Footprints |
Possible theropod footprints, unassigned to any concrete ichnogenus. Theropod tracks include several types, from small to medium specimens. Some alterations near the tracks have been interpreted as derived from displaced sediments moved by the dinosaur upper limb during a search for burrowing organisms. |
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Carnosauripodoidei ichnog. indeterminate |
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Footprints |
Possible tetanuran footprints, unassigned to any concrete ichnogenus. A relatively large single dinosaur track (35‒40 cm wide), its distinctive fingerprints diverging at an angle of 30°‒35° are characteristic of large Jurassic predatory theropods. |
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Ornithischipida ichnog. indeterminate |
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Footprints |
Possible ornithischian footprints, unassigned to any concrete ichnogenus. A series of tracks whose relatively small size (15 cm) and the close position of the left and right limbs suggest they belong to a small herbivorous ornithopod |
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See also
[edit]- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Russia
- Sorthat Formation, Denmark
- Neringa Formation, Lithuania
- Pliensbachian formations
- Blanowice Formation, Southern Poland
- Clarens Formation, South Africa
- Fernie Formation, Canada
- Hasle Formation, Denmark
- Kota Formation, India
- Los Molles Formation, Argentina
- Mawson Formation, Antarctica
- Rotzo Formation, Italy
- Whiteaves Formation, British Columbia
- Navajo Sandstone, Utah
- Kandreho Formation, Madagascar
- Kota Formation, India
- Cattamarra Coal Measures, Australia
References
[edit]- ^ Beznosov, N.V.; Kazakova, V.P.; Leonov, Yu.G.; Pan-ov, D.I. (1960). "Stratigraphy of the Lower and Middle Jurassicrocks in the central North Caucasus". In Materialy Po Geologiigazonosnykh Raionov SSSR (Materials on the Geology of Gas-Bearing Regions in the Soviet Union. 18 (2): 109–191.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Gavrilov, Yu. O (1994). "Lower and Middle Jurassic deltaic sedi-mentary complex in the NE Caucasus: Communication 1.Sedimentological aspects of the deltaic complex formation". Litol. Polezn. Iskop. 4 (1): 77–104.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Гаврилов, Юрий О. (2020). «Следы динозавров в терригентных отложениях на раннем юрском шельфе центрального северного кавказа: седиментологические и палеоэкологические условия» . Литология и минеральные ресурсы . 55 (5): 345–354. Bibcode : 2020LITMR..55..345G . doi : 10.1134/s002449022005003X . S2CID 221569067 . Получено 12 декабря 2021 года .
- ^ Jump up to: а беременный в дюймовый Panov, DI (1997). «Стратиграфия нижних и средних юридических циклов в центральном северном кавказе (зона дигр -асетия)». Byull. Моск. O-VA ISPYT. Прир., Отд. Геол . 72 (5): 46–55.
- ^ SSSR, Paleogeografiya (1975). Ob"yasnitel'naya zapiska k atlasu li-tologo-paleogeograficheskikh kart SSSR (Paleogeography of the Soviet Union: Explanatory Note to the Atlas of Litho-logic–Paleogeographic Maps of the Soviet Union) . Moscow: Nedra.
- ^ Vakhrameev, VA; Васина, Р.А. (1959). «Нижняя юра и ааленская флайца на северном кавказе». Палеонт. ZH 3 (1): 125–133.
- ^ Jump up to: а беременный Vakhrameev, VA; Красилов, Вирджиния (1961). «Домерианский флажок Северный Кавказ». Палеонт. ZH 3 (1): 103–108.
- ^ Ясаманов, Н.А. (1973). «Температура в среде обитания юрских брахиоподов, головоногих и двустворчатых моллюсков в западном транскавказанском бассейне». Геохимия . 5 (2–3): 746–754.
- ^ Yasamanov, N.A . (1978). Landshaftno-klimaticheskie usloviyayury, mela i paleogena Yuga SSSR (Jurassic, Cretaceous,and Paleogene Landscape-Climate Conditions in theSouthern Soviet Union) . Moscow: Nedra.