title: Kurek Formation
text: # Kurek Formation
  
  The Kurek Formation (Russian: Kurek Svita) is a late Oxfordian (Late Jurassic) geologic formation of the Kugitang Svita in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Fossil sauropod tracks have been reported from the formation.
  
  ## Etymology
  
  The formation is named after Mount Kurek (2,280 metres (7,480 ft)), near Langar, Uzbekistan.
  
  ## Description
  
  The mudstones and limestones of the formation comprise a 2 centimetres (0.79 in) thick, massive micrite (mudstone) with sporadic and poorly preserved thin-walled bivalves. Also tracks were preserved at that were probably made in shallow water, showing, in some parts, ripple marks.
  
  ## Fossil content
  
  Among the following fossils have been found in the Kurek Formation:
  
  ### Dinosaurs
  
  * Gissarosaurus tetrafalangensis
  
  ### Ichnofossils
  
  * Megalosauripus uzbekistanicus
  * Mirsosauropus tursunzadei
  * Regarosauropus manovi
  * Shirkentosauropus shirkentensis
  * Therangospodus pandemicus
  
  ### Invertebrates
  
  * Bivalvia indet.
  