Bukachacha Formation
Appearance
Bukachacha Formation | |
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Stratigraphic range: Barremian ~ | |
Type | Geological formation |
Lithology | |
Primary | Mudstone |
Other | Tuff |
Location | |
Coordinates | 53°00′N 116°54′E / 53.0°N 116.9°E |
Approximate paleocoordinates | 56°42′N 114°54′E / 56.7°N 114.9°E |
Region | Zabaykalsky Krai |
Country | Russia |
Type section | |
Named for | Bukachacha |
The Bukachacha Formation is a geological formation in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia dating to the Early Cretaceous (Barremian). The tuffaceous mudstones of the formation were deposited in a lacustrine environment.
Fossil content
[edit]The formation has provided fossil insects:[1]
See also
[edit]- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Russia
- Batylykh Formation, contemporaneous fossiliferous formation of Buryatia
References
[edit]- ^ Bukachacha at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Ponomarenko, 1990
- ^ Sukatsheva, 2016, p.401
- ^ Sinitshenkova, 1990
Bibliography
[edit]- Sukatsheva, I.D (2016), "The family Phryganeidae (Insecta, Trichoptera) from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic of Asia (with a brief worldwide overview of the fossil caddisfly fauna)", Paleontological Journal, 50 (4): 396–405, Bibcode:2016PalJ...50..396S, doi:10.1134/S0031030116040134, retrieved 2020-07-07
- Ponomarenko, A.G (1990), "Beetles, Scarabaeida, in Pozdne-Mezozoyskie Nasekomye Vostochnogo Zabaykal'ya", A.P. Rasnitsyn (Ed.), Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta, 239: 39–82
- Sinitshenkova, N.D (1990), "Mayflies. Ephemerida, in Pozdne-Mezozoyskie Nasekomye Vostochnogo Zabaykal'ya", A. P. Rasnitsyn (Ed.), Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta, 239: 14–20