This succession was deformed during the Cimmerian orogeny and truncated by an angular
unconformity with undeformed Upper Cretaceous sediments. This integrated stratigraphic
study of the Triassic included bed-by-bed sampling for ammonoids, conodonts and bivalves,
as well as limestone and sandstone petrographic analyses. The Nakhlak Group succession
consists of three formations: Alam (Olenekian–Anisian), Bāqoroq (? Upper Anisian …