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Yimugantawu Formation

Yimugantawu Fm


Period: 
Silurian

Age Interval: 
Telychian of Silurian (S1), (24)


Province: 
Xinjiang

Type Locality and Naming

The name is derived from the Yimugangtawu rock series by Zhang Zhenhua et al. (1957). The type locality is the Yinganshan (79°18'E, 40°45'N), Keping, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.

Synonym: (依木干塔乌组)


Lithology and Thickness

It is dominated by purple mudstone and siltstone interbedded with green thin-bedded siltstone and fine-grained sandstone. The calcareous materials are increased in the middle part, the green calcareous sandstone, sandy limestone, even the oolitic limestone lens or thin-bedded limestone are common in this part. The thickness of this formation is changing from 150 m to 600 m commonly, 519 m at the type section; the maximum thickness can be up to 1170 m at the Yimugantawu area.


Lithology Pattern: 
Claystone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

The formation is conformable with the underlying strata, Tataertag Fm

Upper contact

The formation is conformable with the overlying strata, Kiziltag Fm

Regional extent

It is exposed on Kalpintag, Yinganshan, Tielikewatie, Bachu areas. It can be correlated with the Xiushan Formation of Yangtze Region according to the fossil groups (Zhao Wenjin et al., 2009).


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Fossils

The fossils of this formation includes conodont Ozarkodina cf. Edithae (Zhang et Wang, 1995), and abundant fishes, Hanyangaspis guodingshanensis, Hanyangaspis sp.; Pseudoduyunaspis bachuensis; Sinacanthus wuchangensis, Sinacanthus triangulatus, Tarimacanthus bachuensis; Xinjiangichthys pluridentatus, Xinjiangichthys tarimensis and Chondrichthyes indet. (Wang Junqin et al., 1996; Zhao Wenjin et al., 2009).


Age 

The age of this formation belongs to the Middle Telychian.

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Telychian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.3

    Beginning date (Ma): 
436.89

    Ending stage: 
Telychian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.7

    Ending date (Ma):  
434.63

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Wang Chuanshang and Wang Xiaofeng