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Tulugang Formation

Tulugang Fm


Period: 
Permian

Age Interval: 
P2 (95), Guadalupian Epoch (Middle Permian)


Province: 
Hong Kong

Type Locality and Naming

The type section is located on a small island known as the Mafen Islet of the Dapu Sea in the eastern part of the Xinjie Primary Division, Hong Kong. So it is also known as the Dapuhai Fm (Li Zuoming, 1987). It was named by Ruxton B.P. in 1960.

Synonym: Dapuhai Fm


Lithology and Thickness

Siltstone. Interbedded white, dark-grey and light-red siltstones together with the brown and grey-white siltstones, with an exposed thickness of 100-150 m


Lithology Pattern: 
Siltstone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Uncertain contact relationship with the underlying strata.

Upper contact

Uncertain contact relationship with the overlying strata.

Regional extent

An island of Hong Kong (see Type Locality). May be partly coeval with the Central Island Fm on nearby location?


GeoJSON

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Fossils

It yields Brachiopod fossils such as Tenuichonetes tennilirata, T. plicatiformis, Pygmochonetes sp., Uncisteges crenulata, Neoplicatifera huangi, Permundaria shizipuensis, etc.; and bivalve fossils such as Euchondria jiaheensis, Paradoxipecten jiaheensis, Astartella minuta, etc.,


Age 

Maokou’an Subepoch = Guadalupian Epoch (Middle Permian).

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Roadian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.0

    Beginning date (Ma): 
274.37

    Ending stage: 
Wordian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
1.0

    Ending date (Ma):  
264.34

Depositional setting

It is interpreted as a


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information

The formation is close to the Wenbishan Fm and the Tongziyan Fm of Guangdong Province in both their lithology and fossil community.


Compiler:  

Shang Qinghua