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Sinemurian (Early Jurassic) ammonite fauna from the Guangdong region of southern China1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Yi-Gang Wang  and
Paul L. Smith
Yi-Gang Wang*
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver V6T 2B4, Canada
Paul L. Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver V6T 2B4, Canada
*
2Permanent address: Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica, Chi-Ming-Ssu, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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Abstract

An ammonite fauna from the southern coastal volcanic region of the Chinese Jurassic contains representatives of the genera Sulciferites, Coroniceras, Arnioceras, Asteroceras, Eparietites, and Juraphyllites. The ammonite-bearing strata of the Jinji Formation were deposited during the Sinemurian (Bucklandi to Obtusum zones), whereas the lower member has yielded marine Hettangian bivalves. The Jinji Formation is underlain by terrestrial Triassic rocks of the Xiaoping Formation and overlain by terrestrial Middle Jurassic rocks of the Baizushan Group.

Correlative Early Jurassic rocks are shown to occur across eastern Guangdong Province, and probably as far north as southern Hunan Province. Although this marine phase of deposition may correspond broadly to a eustatic sea level rise, the exact role of local tectonic events has still to be assessed.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 60 , Issue 5 , September 1986 , pp. 1075 - 1085
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