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Ilek

79 occ. 25 taxa (4 genera) 1 countries
Description

The Ilek Formation is a Lower Cretaceous geologic formation in Western Siberia. Many different fossils have been recovered from the formation. It overlies the Late Jurassic Tyazhin Formation and underlies the Albian Kiya Formation.

Genera
4 genera
Psittacosaurus
Dinosaurs
Valid 5 occ. · 137 Ma
Urbacodon
Dinosaurs
Valid 4 occ. · 126 Ma
Sibirotitan
Dinosaurs
Valid 1 occ. · 126 Ma
Paronychodon
Dinosaurs
Valid 1 occ. · 155 Ma
Ilek
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Paleontological locality Shestakovo 3 (Ilek Formation, Lower Cretaceous), July 2022. © Sittaco · CC0 · Wikipedia
Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Top countries
🇷🇺 Russia 79
Depositional environments
Terrestrial indet. 50
Fluvial indet. 19
Fluvial-lacustrine indet. 7
Alluvial fan 2
Delta plain 1
Top collectors
A. Mossakovsky 22
I. Lebedev 22
E. Mashchenko 22
Collection activity by decade
1950s 22
1960s 22
1990s 65
2000s 46
2010s 66