A Pennsylvanian rugose coral assemblage from eastern Junggar Basin, Northwest China

The Pennsylvanian rugose corals are not well understood in Northwest China due to their low diversity and restricted distribution under the impact from coeval Gondwana glaciation. In this study, nine rugose coral species of eight genera are described from the Shiqiantan and Jingou formations (Moscov...

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Published in:Palaeoworld
Main Authors: Yang, Sun-Rong, Yao, Le, Hou, Zhang-Shuai, Ye, Xun-Yan, Li, Ying, Huang, Xing, Shen, Shu-Zhong, Wang, Xiang-Dong
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: ELSEVIER 2024
Subjects:
rugose coral
Palaeotethys Ocean
Moscovian-Kasimovian stage
Junggar Basin
Northwest China
NW CHINA
XINJIANG
FAUNA
Paleontology
Novaya Zemlya
Spitsbergen
Online Access:http://ir.nigpas.ac.cn/handle/332004/43953
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2022.12.009
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Summary:The Pennsylvanian rugose corals are not well understood in Northwest China due to their low diversity and restricted distribution under the impact from coeval Gondwana glaciation. In this study, nine rugose coral species of eight genera are described from the Shiqiantan and Jingou formations (Moscovian to Kasimovian stages) in the new Shuangjingzi Section, northern Xinjiang, Northwest China. These species include dissepimented solitary rugose corals ( Arctophyllum shuangjingziense n. sp., Arctophyllum intermedium , Caninophyllum u<spacing diaeresis>ru<spacing diaeresis>mqiense , Gshelia qitaiensis , Pseudotimania aff. junggarensis , Pseudozaphrentoides paramapingensis ), and nondissepimented solitary corals ( Amplexizaphrentis sp., Bradyphyllum bellicostatum and Hapsiphyllum sp.). This coral assemblage includes local taxa of the Junggar Basin, with a few common elements from Urals Mountains, Novaya Zemlya, and Spitsbergen in northwestern Palaeotethys Ocean. The composition of the Shuangjingzi corals is characterized by the medium -large dissepimentarium Caninophyllum u<spacing diaeresis>ru<spacing diaeresis>mqiense - Gshelia qitaiensis assemblage, indicating open shallow carbonate environments. Compared with the Shiqiantan Formation, the obvious increase in the abundance of narrow-dissepimentarium corals of Gshelia in the upper Jingou Formation, implies that lowenergy environments could have developed, with an increase of shales in this interval. (c) 2023 Elsevier B.V. and Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.

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