Shitouling Fm
Type Locality and Naming
The type section is located at Shiling on the west bank of Ledong River (Changhua River), 6 km northeast of Dongfang Town, Dongfang County, Guangdong. It was named by the Regional Geological Survey Party of Guangdong Province in 1964.
Lithology and Thickness
Limestone. Gray and dark-gray limestone containing siliceous nodules or banded limestone and dolomitic limestone, 218 m thick.
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Unknown: It is in faulted contact with the underlying Qingtianxia Fm
Upper contact
Conformable contact with the overlying Ledonghe Fm [not in Carboniferous Lexicon; which has youngest Permian unit on chart of the Echa Fm (but in fault contact)]
Regional extent
Narrowly distributed
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Fossils
Contains Fusulinid Schwagerina sp., Coral Dorlodotia? sp. and bryozoan fragments, crinoid stems, etc.
Age
Depositional setting
It is interpreted as neritic deposits
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