Novikhushk Beds Fm
Type Locality and Naming
Along the sai Novikhushk, left tributary of the sai Hodja-Kurgan, basin of the river Kashkadarya, Zarafshan-Gissar mountain region. A.I. Kim, M.V. Erina, 1984 (228, pp. 23-24).
Synonym: Novikhushk Layers, Новомокская св., Kovikhush Beds; Novikhush Beds
Lithology and Thickness
Rhythmically alternating thick-bedded and massive organodetrital coral-crinoid gray and dark gray limestones and limestone breccias of collapse with layers of fine-grained black siliceous platy and thick-platy limestones. Thickness 110-200m.
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Normally overlie the Obi-Safit layers of the Khodzhakurgan Fm, Kitab Horizon
Upper contact
The upper boundary in the stratotype is tectonically disturbed, but on the southern slope of the Raykazak Mountain and along the sae Kindyktepa beyond the borders of Uzbekistan, they are normally overlain by the Kindyktepa Fm (Kindyktepa Beds).
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Fossils
Contains stromatoporoids - *Stromatopora hupschii* Barg., *Bifariostroma bifariumforme* Less., *Actinostroma">Actinostroma asiatica* Less., *Stachyodes cf. verticilata* (M'Coy); rugose corals - *Neomphyma minima* (Ivania), *Acanthophyllum vermiculare* (Goldf.), *Dendrostella trigemme* (Quent.), *Sociophyllum longiseptatum* (Bulv.), *S. torosum* (Schlut.) and others; tabulate corals - *Alveolites taenioformis* Schlut., *Crassialveolites cf. crassus* Lec., *Scoliopora ex gr. multispinosa* Yanet, *Syringoporella moravica* (F. Roemer), *Heliolites ex gr. porosus* Goldf., *Chaetetes">Chaetetes crassimuralis* Dubat. and others; brachiopods - *Bornhardtina uncitoides* Schulz, *Stringocephalus* sp.; Tentaculites - *Nowakia cf. otomari* Bouček; conodonts *Polygnathus costatus costatus* Klap., *P. eiflius* Bi. et Ziegl., *P. xylus ensensis* Z. et Al., *P. varcus* Stauf., *P. cf. pseudofoliatus* Witt., *P. cf. partitus* Kl., Ziegl. et Mashk.
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