ПАЛЕОНТОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ ВЕРХНЕЮРСКИХ КАРБОНАТНЫХ ФОРМАЦИЙ ЮЖНОГО И ЗАПАДНОГО УЗБЕКИСТАНА

This article discusses paleontological studies of Upper Jurassic carbonate formations of Southern and Western Uzbekistan. The study of sections of Upper Jurassic reef deposits of the carbonate formation within the closed territories of the Bukhara-Khiva oil and gas region (Western Uzbekistan) and outcrops of the South-Western spurs of the Gissar Range (Southern Uzbekistan) shows that the lush development of corals (scleractinians) in the basins of the late Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian time indicates the most favorable hydrodynamic and temperature conditions for reef building. A comprehensive paleobiological analysis of scleractinians shows that they once lived in certain paleoecological conditions of the basin.