Luxi Fm
Type Locality and Naming
The type section is at Wanyaoshu in Luxi County, Yunnan. The Luxi Fm was named by Yunnan Party of Regional Geological Survey and Sheng Xinfu in 1963, and was published by Yunnan Compiling Group for Regional Stratigraphic Scale (1980).
Synonym: (潞西组）
Lithology and Thickness
The formation is represented by dark gray thin- to medium-bedded argillaceous dolomite intercalated with minor siltstone. In the type area, the Luxi Fm is 80 m thick.
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
It rests conformably on the sandy shale intercalated with marl of the Laojianshan Fm, which is defined to be the upper part of the present Shidian Fm
Upper contact
It is conformably overlain by the sandy limestone intercalated with shale of the Mangjiu Fm.
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Fossils
This stratigraphic unit yields trilobites Lonchodomas yohi, Neseuretus birmanicus, Calymenesun tingi, Ampyx sp.
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