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Wangjiajie Formation
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Wangjiajie Fm base reconstruction

Wangjiajie Fm


Period: 
Devonian

Age Interval: 
D21 (9), Eifelian (early Middle Devonian)


Province: 
Jilin

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.


Lithology Pattern: 
Sandy limestone


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.


GeoJSON

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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 

Eifelian (early Middle Devonian)

Age Span: 
S

    Beginning stage: 
Emsian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.5

    Beginning date (Ma): 
402.41

    Ending stage: 
Eifelian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.5

    Ending date (Ma):  
389.80

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

(Hou Hongfei)