Wangjiajie Fm
Type Locality and Naming
The type section is located at Wangjiajie of Huangyu Town in Yongji County, Jilin. It was named by Li Dongjin et al. in 1966; Wang Mingzhou et al. formally quoted it in 1973; and Nan Runshan, Guo Shengzhe adopted it in 1992.
Lithology and Thickness
Siltstone, tuff. Lower member is composed of clayey siltstone, feldspathic sandstone intercalated with purple tuff, volcanic breccia and grayish-black limestone.
Limestone. Upper member is dominated by bioclastic limestone and dolomitic limestone intercalated with a few thin-bedded clayey limestone layers and chert nodules.
The total exposed thickness is 876.7 m.
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
The lower boundary is not clear. Next older unit in region is basal-Devonian Erdaogou Fm
Upper contact
The top is an unconformable contact with Lower Carboniferous.
Regional extent
This formation is distributed in Huangyu Town of Yongji County, Jilin.
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Fossils
The lower member yields coral Favosites cf. goldfussi, Thamnopora yangi, Syringopora schmidti major, Disphyllum sp.; Stromatopora Dendrostella sp., Stachyodes berticulata etc.
The upper member yields Stromatopora Actinostroma, Dendrostella wangjiajieensis; coral Sociophyllum semiseptatum, Pachyfavosites sp., Squameofavosites sp., Amphipora angusta, sp. etc.
Age
Depositional setting
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