Bostobe Svita

Template:Infobox rockunit The Bostobe Svita is a geological formation in Kazakhastan whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.<ref name="cretaceousdistribution">Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Cretaceous, Asia)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 593-600. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.</ref>

Vertebrate paleofauna

• Theropods:
  • Troodontidae indet.<ref name=Bostobe>Averianov, A., 2016. Frontal bones of non-avian theropod dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian-?Campanian) Bostobe Formation of the northeastern Aral Sea region, Kazakhstan. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 53 (2) 168-175. http://cjes.geoscienceworld.org/content/53/2/168</ref>
  • Therizinosauria indet.<ref name=Bostobe/>
  • Ornithomimosauria indet.<ref name=Bostobe/>
  • Tyrannosauroidea indet.
• Ornithopods:
  • Aralosaurus tuberiferus
  • Arstanosaurus akkurganensis
  • Batyrosaurus rozhdestvenskyi
• Pterosaurs:
  • Aralazhdarcho bostobensis<ref>A. O. Averianov (2004), “New Data on Cretaceous Flying Reptiles (Pterosauria) of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan,” Paleontol. Zh., No. 4, 73–83 (Paleontol. J. 38 (4), 426–436)</ref>
  • Samrukia nessovi
• Mammals:
  • Beleutinus orlovi
  • Zhalmouzia bazhanovi
  • Parazhelestes sp.<ref>A. O. Averianov, J. D. Archibald, P. P. Skutschas and G. J. Dyke. 2014. New mammal remains from the Late Cretaceous Bostobe Formation (northeast Aral Sea Region, Kazakhstan). Palaeoworld 23:314-320.</ref>
• Turtles:
  • Khunnuchelys lophorhothon (a trionychid turtle, known from remains initially thought to belong to a hadrosaurid dinosaur and classified as cf. Lophorhothon sp)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Kazakhstan