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Luotuoshan Formation
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Luotuoshan Fm base reconstruction

Luotuoshan Fm


Period: 
Devonian

Age Interval: 
D11-2 (5), early and middle Early Devonian.


Province: 
Heilongjiang

Type Locality and Naming

The type section was not given. It was named by No 2 branch Team of Heilongjiang No 2 Team of Regional Geological Survey in 1981.


Lithology and Thickness

Metamorphic sandstone. According to the sections located at Luotuoshan and Yienishan, 3 km and 6 km from northeast of Wunur respectively, and the section northwest of Zhadunhe forest Farm, the lithology of the formation is dominated by grayish-green metamorphic calcareous quartz sandstone, phyllitic calcareous slate and siltstone intercalated with bioclastic limestone and with sandy conglomerate at bottom.

It is more than 100 m thick.


Lithology Pattern: 
Shallow-marine marl


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

It disconformably overlies the underlying Ordovician.

Upper contact

Its upper part is cut by faults, so no direct contact relation with the overlying Wunur Fm can be seen.

Regional extent

In Da Hingan Ling, this formation is mainly distributed in Wunur to Zhadunhe Forest Farm areas.


GeoJSON

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Fossils

It yields brachiopods Protathyris praecursor, Cymostrophia sp., Ancillotoechia sp., Howellella sp., and coral Favosites sp., Pachyfavosites sp.


Age 

early and middle Early Devonian.

Age Span: 
S

    Beginning stage: 
Pragian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.5

    Beginning date (Ma): 
411.46

    Ending stage: 
Pragian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
1.0

    Ending date (Ma):  
410.51

Depositional setting

It is interpreted as a normal shallow-marine deposits.


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

(Hou Hongfei)