{{Short description|Geological formation}} {{Infobox rockunit | name = Khatyspyt Formation | period = | age = Neoproterozoic | image = | imagesize = | caption = | type = Geological formation | prilithology = | otherlithology = | unitof = Olenëk Uplift | subunits = | underlies = Turkut Formation | overlies = Mastakh Formation | thickness = | area = | map = | map_caption = <!----Location----> | location = Siberia | coordinates = | region = | country = | extent = <!--Type section---> | namedfor = <!--Usually a nearby town--> | namedby = <!--Author of defining paper--> | year_ts = <!--Year of definition--> | location_ts = <!--Place,mountain,...--> | coordinates_ts = <!--Geographic coordinates--> | paleocoordinates_ts = <!--Paleocoordinates--> | region_ts = <!--Region of type section--> | country_ts = <!--Country of type section--> | thickness_ts = <!--Thickness at type section--> }}
The '''Khatyspyt Formation''' is a Neoproterozoic formation exposed in the Olenëk Uplift of north central Siberia,<ref name=Grazhdankin2004>{{Citation | author = Grazhdankin, Dima | year = 2004 | title = Patterns of distribution in the Ediacaran biotas: facies versus biogeography and evolution | journal = Paleobiology | volume = 30 | issue = 2 | pages = 203–221 | doi = 10.1666/0094-8373(2004)030<0203:PODITE>2.0.CO;2 | jstor=4096843 | s2cid = 129376371 }}</ref> which contains the only known instance of the Ediacara biota preserved in a limestone bed.<ref>{{PalAss2007|title=Preservation of Ediacaran fossils in limestones from the Khatyspyt Formation (Siberia)|author=Uwe Balthasar; Dima Grazhdankin |pages=28}}</ref> The Khatyspyt Formation forms one of the major parts of the Khorbusuonka Group; underlying the Khatyspyt are dolomites of the Mastakh Formation and their overlying red beds; the Turkut Formation overlies the Khatyspyt. The Khatyspyt and part of the overlying Turkut comprise a major shallowing upward marine carbonate sequence. <ref name=Knoll_1995>{{cite journal|last=Knoll|first=Andrew H.|author2=John P. Grotzinger |author3=Alan J. Kaufman |author4=Petr Kolosov |title=Integrated approaches to terminal Proterozoic stratigraphy: an example from the Olenek Uplift, northeastern Siberia|journal=Precambrian Research|year=1995|volume=73|issue=1–4 |pages=251–270|doi=10.1016/0301-9268(94)00081-2|pmid=11539551 |bibcode=1995PreR...73..251K }}<!--|accessdate=11 March 2012 --></ref> ''Khatyspytia'' is named after this formation.<ref name=Grazhdankin2004_2>{{Cite journal | author = Grazhdankin, Dima | year = 2004 | title = Patterns of distribution in the Ediacaran biotas: facies versus biogeography and evolution | volume = 30 | issue = 2 | pages = 203–221 | doi = 10.1666/0094-8373(2004)030<0203:PODITE>2.0.CO;2 | issn = 0094-8373 | journal = Paleobiology | s2cid = 129376371 }}</ref>
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Category:Geologic formations of Russia Category:Geology of Siberia Category:Ediacaran Asia Category:Lagerstätten