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Cailunguoshao Formation
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Cailunguoshao Fm base reconstruction

Cailunguoshao Fm


Period: 
Devonian

Age Interval: 
D31 (4), Frasnian (early Late Devonian)


Province: 
Inner Mongolia

Type Locality and Naming

LOCAL. The type section was not given. It was named by Ding Yunjie et al. in 1972 and quoted formally by Inner Mongolia Team of Regional Geological Survey in 1973 during mapping the Dong Ujimqin Qi Geological Map (the scale is 1:200,000).


Lithology and Thickness

Sandstone. The Lower part of the formation is dominated by clayey siltstone, intercalated with fine-grained feldspathic quartz sandstone and limestone lenses. The Upper part is mainly marked by medium-fine-grained arkose and pebble-bearing sandstone, intercalated with calcareous sandstone lenses. The outcrop thickness is 564 m.


Lithology Pattern: 
Fine-grained sandstone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Unknown: The bottom of the formation here is cut by faults. The next older formation in this region is the Tarbagete Fm.

Upper contact

Unknown: The top of the formation here is cut by faults. The next younger formation in this region is the Honggermiao Fm tuffs.

Regional extent


GeoJSON

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Fossils

It yields brachiopods: Cyrtospirifer sp., Spinulicosta sp., Schuchertella sp., Spinatrypa sp. and coral: Stewartophyllum sp.


Age 

Frasnian (early Late Devonian)

Age Span: 
S

    Beginning stage: 
Frasnian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.2

    Beginning date (Ma): 
377.34

    Ending stage: 
Frasnian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.8

    Ending date (Ma):  
372.66

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

(Hou Hongfei)