Sügöttü geological section

The Sügöttü geological section is 405 meters thick. It consists of four formations and belongs to the Mesozoic Era. The Mesozoic Era began 252.2 million years ago, following the conclusion of the Paleozoic Era, and ended 66 million years ago, at the dawn of the Cenozoic Era. 

The major divisions of the Mesozoic Era are, from oldest to youngest, the Triassic Period, the Jurassic Period, and the Cretaceous Period. The ancestors of major plant and animal groups that exist today first appeared during the Mesozoic, but this era is best known as the time of the dinosaurs. 

Some fragments of dinosaur bones were found in the Sügöttü geological section, which are currently considered to be the most ancient dinosaurs fossils found in Kyrgyzstan. Moreover, explorative excavations suggest that more intact dinosaur fossils are likely to be found in Sügöttü, which will shed light on the early stages of dinosaur evolution. 

Fossil plants preserved in the Sügöttü geological section indicate that these formations belong to the Late Triassic (Norian and Rhaetian stages) and Early and middle Jurassic (Leuas). This geological heritage site represents an interesting geological, geomorphological, structural-geological, neotectonic, and seismological phenomena.