Huxingliang Fm
Type Locality and Naming
The type section is lies at the mouth of two gullies (44°56′40″N, 90°14′E), Liukeshu and Tamugang, Kalamaili, Qitai, Xinjiang. It was named by the Comprehensive Research Party of Xinjiang Bureau of Geology in 1965, and formally cited in The Paleozoic Erathem of Xinjiang in 1991.
Lithology and Thickness
Siltstone. Dominated by thin-bedded silty mudstone, siltstone, sandstone and minor conglomerate. Thickness 69−220 m.
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Unconformable contact (mostly) with the underlying strata
Upper contact
Unconformable contact (mostly) with the overlying strata
Regional extent
Distributed along Dishuiquan to southeastern Shuangjingzi at the south slope of Kalamaili Mt
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Fossils
Contains a large amount of Angara flora elements, including Angaopteridium cardiopteroides, Noeggerathiopsis sp., Cardioneura sp., Angaridium, Ginkgophyllum, Neuropteris, etc.
Age
Depositional setting
It is interpreted as a suite of continental clastic rocks
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