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Zhongpeng Formation

Zhongpeng Fm


Period: 
Devonian

Age Interval: 
D3 1 (72), Late Devonian


Province: 
Jiangxi

Type Locality and Naming

The type section is located at Zhongpeng of Xiashan Village, Yudu County of Jiangxi Province.

It was named by Regional Geological Survey of Jiangxi in 1966.


Lithology and Thickness

Sandstone. The Formation is mainly composed of grayish-white, grayish-green and grayish-purple feldspar quartz sandstone and feldspar sandstone intercalated with purplish-red and yellowish-green siltstone and shale and some beds of calcareous fine-grained sandstone.

It is 300 m thick at the type section.


Lithology Pattern: 
Fine-grained sandstone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Upper contact

Regional extent

The Formation is distributed in the south of Jiangxi: Yudu, Congyi and Xinfeng.


GeoJSON

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Fossils

It yields plant Sphenopteridium sp., Leptophloeum rhombicum, Cyclostigma kiltorkensis, Sublepidodendron sp.;

brachiopoda Tenticospirifer sp.; and

fish Bothriolepis spp.


Age 

Late Devonian

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Frasnian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.0

    Beginning date (Ma): 
378.90

    Ending stage: 
Famennian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
1.0

    Ending date (Ma):  
359.30

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

(Wang Shitao)