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Wubinobo Formation

Wubinobo Fm


Period: 
Ordovician

Age Interval: 
Late Ordovician, (9)


Province: 
Inner Mongolia

Type Locality and Naming

Type section at Wubin’aobao in Sonid Zuo Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Named by No.1 Inner Mongolia Regional Geological Survey Team, 1970, Explanatory Text for 1:200 000 Scale Geological Map: Xilinchaganaobao Sheet, Dalai Sheet.

Synonym: Wubin’aobao


Lithology and Thickness

Slate with interbeds of siltstone and thin-bedded limestone


Lithology Pattern: 
Shallow-marine marl


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Regionally, the next older unit is the Bayanhushu Fm

Upper contact

Regional extent


GeoJSON

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Fossils


Age 


Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Katian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.0

    Beginning date (Ma): 
452.75

    Ending stage: 
Katian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.45

    Ending date (Ma):  
449.36

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Extracted from Geological Formation Names of China (1866-2000); Springer Publ.