The Fourth International Symposium ofInternational Geoscience Programme
IGCP Project 608

Lebedeva N.K., Yan P.A., Feofanova O.A.,
Goryacheva A.A., Kuzmina O.B., Demidenko N.V.

Cretaceous dinosaur-bearing deposits in Kemerovo
OblastField Excursion Guidebookof the Fourth International Symposiumof International Geoscience Programme
IGCP Project 608
August 18–20, 2016, Novosibirsk, Russia

Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics SB RAS
State Cultural Institution "Kemerovo Regional Museum of Local Lore"

Lebedeva N.K., Yan P.A., Feofanova O.A.,
Kuzmina O.B., Goryacheva A.A., Demidenko N.V.

Cretaceous dinosaur-bearing deposits in Kemerovo
Oblast Russia
Field Excursion Guidebookof the Fourth International Symposiumof International Geoscience Programme
IGCP Project 608
August 18-20, 2016
Novosibirsk-Kemerovo, Russia

Novosibirsk
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Lebedeva N.K., Yan P.A., Feofanova O.A., Kuzmina O.B., Goryacheva A.A., Demidenko
N.V. Cretaceous dinosaur-bearing deposits in Kemerovo Oblast: Field Excursion Guidebook. FourthInternational Symposium of International Geoscience Programme IGCP Project 608, Novosibirsk,
August 15-20, 2016. – Novosibirsk, IPGG SB RAS, 2016. – 10 p.
The Field Excursion Guidebook contains information about program of field trip and somegeological data on Shestakovo localities of Early Cretaceous vertebrates.
The book is of interest for a wide range of the geologists studying Mesozoic deposits.

The organization and carrying out of meeting are maintained by UNESCO-IUGS-IGCP
Committee (IGCP Project 608) and Russian Foundation for Basic Researches(RFBR project 16-05-20508).

ISBN© IPGG SB RAS, 2016
© The authors, 2016

EXECUTIVES AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
IGCP 608 Project LeadersProf. Hisao Ando (Leader)Department of Earth Sciences, Ibaraki University, Japan
Prof. Xiaoqiao Wan (Co-Leader)
School of Geosciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, China
Prof. Daekyo, Cheong (Co-Leader)Department of Geology, College of Natural Sciences, Kangwon National University, Korea
Prof. Sunil Bajpai (Co-Leader)
Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow, India
Regional Coordinators
Prof. Guobiao Li
Department of Geosciences & Sources, China University of Geosciences, China
Prof. Guntupalli V. R. Prasad
Department of Geology, University of Delhi, India
Dr. Djadajang Sukarna
New & Renewable Energy Conservation, Ministry of Energy & Mineraqls, Indonesia
Prof. Takashi Hasegawa
Department of Earth Science, Kawazawa University, Japan
Prof. In Sung Paik
Department of Environmental Geosciences, Pukyong National University, Korea
Dr. Niiden Ichinnorov
Paleontology Centre, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolia
Mr. M. Sadig Malkani
Paleontology & Stratigraphy branch, Geological Survey of Pakistan, Pakistan
Dr. Carla Dimalanta
National Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Philippines, Philippines
Dr. Galina L. Kirillova
Institute of Tectonics & Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Prof. Boris N. Shurygin
Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology & Geophysics, RAS, Russia
Mr. Naramase Teerarungsigul
Department of Mineral Resources, Thailand
Prof. Nguyen Xuan Khien
Vietnam Institute of Geosciences & Mineral Resources, Vietnam
Organizing Committee of the Fourth International Symposium of IGCP608
RAS Academician, Prof. Alexey E. Kontorovich (Honorary Chairman)
Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics (IPGG) SB RAS, Novosibirsk State
University (NSU)RAS Corresponding Member Vladimir I. Klishin (Honorary Chairman)
Coal Institute of the Federal Coal and Coal Chemistry Research Center SB RASRAS Corresponding Member, Prof. Valeriy A. Vernikovsky (Honorary Chairman)
IPGG SB RAS, NSU
RAS Corresponding Member, Prof. Boris N. Shurygin (Co-chairman)
IPGG SB RAS, NSU
Dr. Galina L. Kirillova (Co-chairman)
Kosygin Institute of Tectonics and Geophysics FEB RAS
Dr. Oksana S. Dzyuba (Vice-chairman)
IPGG SB RAS
Dr. Natalya K. Lebedeva (Vice-chairman)
IPGG SB RAS, NSU
Dr. Ekaterina B. Pestchevitskaya (Vice-chairman)
IPGG SB RASOlga A. Feofanova (Vice-chairman)
Director of the SCI "Kemerovo Regional Museum of Local Lore"
Igor N. Kosenko (Symposium Secretary)
IPGG SB RAS, NSU
Dr. Alexandr S. Alifirov, IPGG SB RAS, NSU
Dr. Alexander L. Beisel, IPGG SB RAS
Dr. Larisa A. Glinskikh, IPGG SB RAS
Dr. Anna A. Goryacheva, IPGG SB RAS
Dr. Irina V. Khazina, IPGG SB RAS
Dr. Olga B. Kuzmina, IPGG SB RAS
Dr. Boris L. Nikitenko, IPGG SB RAS
Dr. Petr A. Yan, IPGG SB RAS
Clémentine Colpaert, NSU
Natalya V. Demidenko, SCI "Kemerovo Regional Museum of Local Lore"
Alexander E. Igolnikov, IPGG SB RAS, NSU
Svetlana N. Khafaeva, IPGG SB RAS
Anna N. Trubicyna, IPGG SB RAS
Olga S. Urman, IPGG SB RAS
Co-Organizing Agency
Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics SB RAS
Novosibirsk State University
State Cultural Institution "Kemerovo Regional Museum of Local Lore"
Coal Institute of the Federal Coal and Coal Chemistry Research Center SB RAS
Cretaceous Commission of the Interdepartmental Stratigraphic Committee of Russia
Russian National Committee for International Geoscience ProgrammeSponsors
UNESCO-IUGS-IGCP (IGCP project 608)
Russian Foundation for Basic Researches (RFBR project 16-05-20508)
INPEX Corporation Co., Ltd. (Japan)
Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd. (Japan)
JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation Co., Ltd. (Japan)
Mitsui Oil Exploration Co., Ltd. (Japan)
Mitsubishi Corporation Exploration Co., Ltd. (Japan)
Oyo Corporation Co., Ltd. (Japan)
DIA Consultants Co., Ltd. (Japan)
Chuo Kaihatsu Co., Ltd. (Japan)

Route map of excursion

Day 1 (Thursday, August 18):
8:00 am Leaving Hotel "Golden Valley" in Novosibirsk for Kemerovo.
14:00 Arrival at Hotel of Kemerovo.
16:00-18:00 Visiting the Kemerovo Regional Museum of Local Lore, arrival to hotel inKemerovo.
Kemerovo Regional Museum consists of geological, zoological, botanical andpaleontological collections (http://www.kuzbasskray.ru/). The museum and its collections havenearly 100 years of history. Today Kemerovo Regional Museum has developed and adopted
a scientific concept for acquisition of exhibits. One of such directions is the collection of
paleontological objects and the creation of a new permanent exhibition that reflects theevolution of life on the territory of Kuzbass.
In 2013 Kemerovo Regional Museum initiated the organization of scientific research of
Early Cretaceous vertebrates deposit in Shestakovo, one of the largest and most promisingdinosaurs burials in Russia (Alifanov et al., 1999;. Mashchenko et al, 2014).
Shestakovo-3 locality in collaboration with PIN RAS team.
Presently the museum has reached outstanding results never seen before in theresearch in Shestakovo locality. During the expeditions of 2014-2015 more than 1,500
paleontological items were collected, also a new bone-bed streak was discovered bearing a
mass burials of skeletons Psittacosaurus sibiricus Voronkevich & Averianov, 2000 (Lopatin etal., 2015).

Day 2 (Friday, August 19):9:00-19: 00 Field excursion on Early Cretaceous dinosaur localities near the village ofShestakovo in Kemerovo Region.
The Russia’s largest complex of localities of Early Cretaceous vertebrates is situatednear village Shestakovo (Chebulа district, Kemerovo region).
The stratigraphic position of the localities with Shestakovo complex in regional
sectionThe locations of Early Cretaceous vertebrates in the area of Shestakovo are confinedto the Ilek Formation, which stratotype is described by L.A. Ragosin in 1936 on the right bankof the Chulym River in a outcrop of the Big Ilek (Achinsk, Krasnoyarsk Region). Formation lies
with a break on the Jurassic and Paleozoic sediments, overlapping with the erosion of theUpper Creataceous rocks. The age of the Ilek Formation was defined as Valangin – Apt. The
Ilek Formation is exposed only in the south of the Chulym-Yenisei region (river basins: Kiya,Chulum, Kemchug, Kem), where it is presented by a greenish-gray and yellowish-green sandwith calcareous sandstone concretions, rhythmically alternating with benches of thin-greenishgray and brown-red siltstone and marl clay.
The location comprises two sections:- the Shestakovo 1 locality – the Kiya River Bluff about 500 m downstream from
Shestakovo village;- the Shestakovo 3 locality – about 1.5 km south-east from Shestakovo village.
The Shestakovo 1 locality
The Shestakovo locality which has yielded Early Cretaceous vertebrates, is located on
the right bank of the Kiya River 1.5 km downstream from the village of Shestakovo (ChebulinskiiDistrict, Kemerovo Region).
In the course of these studies a large number of late Pleistocene mammals were foundincluding woolly mammoth, Pleistocene bison, woolly rhinoceros, wolf, reindeer, Pleistocene
hors. In addition to these, the fossils of Early Cretaceous vertebrates, such as giant dinosaurs(Sauropods) and Tyrannosaurids dinosaurs were found.

The Shestakovo 3 locality
In 2014 Kemerovo Regional Museum started excavation in the area of 2 x 8 m with thealtitude of 7 m above the road level. 1 m below the soil level the alluvial deposits of Early
Cretaceous including terrestrial vertebrate fossils were discovered. The bon-bad layer included
brownish-red and greenish-gray solid clay. Sculls, fractions of bones and fragments ofskeletons of Early Cretaceous vertebrates (Protosuchia, Tagarosuchus kulemzini, Lacertilia(Agamidae) and dinosaurus Psittacosaurus sibiricus) were found there. The bone-bearing lens
was located at the level of 0,3 m under bon-bad layer. The characters of the bone-bearing lens
taphonomy demonstrated that the examined piece of about 1 m wide and 4,5 m long extended
from north-east to south-west. The thickness of the lens was approximately 60 – 70 sm.
The lens is unique with the quantity of complete Psittacosaurus skeletons, presented
in anatomic position in situ. The taphonomy peculiarities suggest that the death of dinosaurgroup, consisting of specimen of different ages, was the result of a catastrophe. It is probablethat moving along the temporary stream bed they were buried by a mud flow. Such type of ataphonomy has never been previously obtained at Shestakovo locality or at any other locality
in Russia. (Maschenko, 2015, Averianov, 2006).

The discovered lens with a mass grave of psittacosaurs is probably formed as a resultof a short-termed catastrophic event, which could be a flood. It can be assumed that theanimals were washed away by the low power temporary stream. The presence of a significantnumber of young individuals in the burial, probably indicates complex forms of group behavior,possibly including taking care of offspring.

Day 3 (Saturday, August 20):
9:00 am Leaving Kemerovo
10:00-14: 00 Visiting the “Tomskaya pisanitsa” (historical cultural and naturalmuseum-preserve) and returning to Novosibirsk.
18:00 Arrival at "Golden Valley" Hotel in Novosibirsk
Tomskaya pisanitsa is the first Siberian monument of Rock Art which became themuseum (http://www.gukmztp.ru/eng_index.html). It is a unique monument of history andculture of Eurasia. Nearly 300 drawings are well-known from the Tomskaya pisanitsa.
Tomskaya pisanitsa appeared at the end of the Neolithic age, IV-III thousand years BC
it served as a sanctuary before I millennium BC. Themes of Tomskaya pisanitsa are elks, holy
birds, and a bear. In the bronze age (П-I thousand years BC) solar signs, boats, guises, andbird men appear.

References
Alifanov V.R., Efimov M.B., Novikov I.V., Morales M. 1999. A new psittacosaur complexof tetrapods from the Lower Cretaceous Shestakovo locality (Southern Siberia). Reports of theAcademy of Sciences 369: 491-493.
Averianov A.O., Voronkevich A.V., Leshchinskiy S.V., Fayngertz A.V., 2006. A
Ceratopsian dinosaur Psittacosaurus sibiricus from the Early Cretaceous of West Siberia,Russia and its phylogenetic relationships. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 4 (4): 359-395.
Lopatin A. V., Maschenko E. N., Tarasenko К.К., Podlesnov А.V., Demidenko N.V.,
Kuzmina Е.А. 2015. Unique burial of Early Cretaceous vertebrates in Western Siberia (theShestakovo 3 locality, Kemerovo Region, Russia). Reports of Academy of Sciences 462: 620–623.
Maschenko E.N., Feofanova О.А., Demidenko N.V., Kuzmina Е.А. 2014. Looking for a
Siberian dinosaur. Science and life 11: 74 – 80.