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Yuliucun Formation

Yuliucun Fm


Period: 
Triassic

Age Interval: 
Early Middle Triassic (TJ70)


Province: 
Yunnan

Type Locality and Naming

The named section is located in Yuliu Village, Lijiang County, Yunnan Province. P. Misch in 1947. Initially assigned to clay-rich strata in Lijiang between the Lower Triassic (Lugu Lake Formation = Luguhu Fm) and the Beiya Fm of the Middle Triassic, which is the early Middle Triassic. The 1st Area Survey Team of Yunnan Province (1966) named the above group as Beiya group. Wang Zunzhou et al. (1992) advocated continuing to use one member of the Yuliucun Fm, but reduced the range of rock stratigraphy of the Yuliucun Fm, and assigned the sand shale in the lower part of the original Yuliucun Fm to the underlying Lamei Fm. This Lexicon maintains the meaning of the Yuanyu Six Village Group.


Lithology and Thickness

The Yuliucun Formation is a set of argillaceous rock and calcareous shale strata. The top and bottom boundaries are marked by the first and last occurrence of the middle thick argillaceous limestone with a small amount of siltstone and shale. Its thickness is 214 m


Lithology Pattern: 
Shallow-marine marl


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

It is concordant with the underlying Lamei Fm of the Lower Triassic.

Upper contact

It is concordant with the overlying Beiya Fm of the Middle Triassic.

Regional extent

Distributed in Lijiang area, northern Yunnan,


GeoJSON

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Fossils

Bivalves: Costatoria goldfussi mansuyi-Leptochondria paradoxica zone. And ammonoid, gastropod and crinoid fossils.


Age 


Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Anisian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.0

    Beginning date (Ma): 
246.70

    Ending stage: 
Anisian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
1.0

    Ending date (Ma):  
241.46

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Zhang Shunxin, Zhou Ze and Tong Jinnan.