THIS SANTAI BEING NOT THAT SANTAI--CORRECTING AN ERROR OF FOSSIL LOCALITY

In 1956, the late Professor Sze Hsin-Chien (H. C. Sze) published a paper dealing with some specimens of Leptophloeum rhomblicum Dawson, which in this paper were said to be provided by the No. 7 Branch of the No. 631 Team of the Northwest Bureau of Geology, Ministry of Geology and collected from Santai Town of Jimsar County, Xinjiang. Since then, geological investigations in nearly 50 years have shown that neither fossil plants of such kind nor the Late Devonian strata have yet been found throughout the Mount Bogada including the above-mentioned Satai Town of Jimsar County. Thus, questions arise about the true locality yielding the specimens described by Sze and also about whether there are the Late Devonian strata near Satai Town indeed. These unsettled questions have long been practically and theoretically affecting the task of geologic mapping, palaeofloristic provincialism and interpretation of geological structure of the eastern Tianshan Mountains. Such problems have not yet been cleared up to now. Based on the on-the-spot investigations and examinations for many years and combined with the results of research data, the authors confirm that the original locality of L. rhomblicum is actually the site near Satai by the side of the Sayram Lake at the northern foot of western Tianshan Mountains, and not the Satai Town of Jimsar County at the northern foot of eastern Tianshan Mountains, where the Late Devonian strata containing the above-mentioned plant fossils do not occurr.

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