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Tegeinaiqikedaban Formation

Tegeinaiqikedaban Fm


Period: 
Carboniferous

Age Interval: 
C2 (19), Late Carboniferous


Province: 
Xinjiang

Type Locality and Naming

The type section is located at Yetisudaban, Yengisar County, Xinjiang. It was named by Zhen Baosheng in 1989.


Lithology and Thickness

Siltstone aand Sandstone. A suite of dominantly gray-black clastic rocks intercalated with carbonate rocks. At Yetisudaban, it is composed of black and gray-black clayey siltstone, dark-gray calcareous fine-grained sandstone and medium-grained sandstone intercalated with gray-black bioclastic rock, gray-black sandy limestone and minor conglomerate; exposed thickness 846.8 m. At Aijieke of Akto County, exposed thickness 1238.27 m; with small variation in lithology.


Lithology Pattern: 
Siltstone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Conformable contact with the underlying lower Upper Carboniferous (Kuerling Gr)

Upper contact

Unknown: The top is unseen at type section. At Aijieke, it is overlain by the Lower Jurassic Series.

Regional extent

Distributed around Xilibili of Yengisar County. Exposed width 2−5 km, and length 20 km, striking NW-SE.


GeoJSON

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Fossils

Yields Coral Caninia and Fusulinids


Age 

Late Carboniferous

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Kasimovian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.0

    Beginning date (Ma): 
307.02

    Ending stage: 
Asselian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
1.0

    Ending date (Ma):  
293.52

Depositional setting

It is interpreted as littoral-neritic deposits


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Zhang Zixin