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Luanshijiao Formation

Luanshijiao Fm


Period: 
Carboniferous

Age Interval: 
C12 (38), early Late Carboniferous


Province: 
Sichuan

Type Locality and Naming

The type section is located at Shilama, Bangda Township, Jintang District, Kangding County, Sichuan. It was named by the No. 2 Regional Geological Survey Party of Sichuan Bureau of Geology in 1976.


Lithology and Thickness

Limestone. Dominated by gray and light-gray moderately thick- to thick-bedded crystalline limestone, organic limestone, bioclastic limestone and siliceous rock, occasionally with bioclastic calcirudite in the upper part. Totaling 280.6 m thick.


Lithology Pattern: 
Reef limestone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Conformable contact with the underlying Changyanwo Fm

Upper contact

Conformable contact with the overlying Shilama Fm

Regional extent

Distributed mainly at Dayutongliangzi, Kongyu, Yeniugou and Changyanwo of Kangding


GeoJSON

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Fossils

Fusulinids Profusulinella parva, P. wangyui, Pseudostaffella ozawai, P. khotunensis, Ozawainella magna, O. krusnokamski, Fusiella subtilis and Aljutovella Fallax; and Coral Chaetetes sp.


Age 

early Late Carboniferous

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Bashkirian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.0

    Beginning date (Ma): 
323.40

    Ending stage: 
Moscovian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
1.0

    Ending date (Ma):  
307.02

Depositional setting

It is interpreted as littoral-neritic deposits


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Fan Yingnian