Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.

It consists of continental siliciclastic red beds, with fauna which similar to that of the Nemegt Formation.

[1] It is the lowest unit of the Nanxiong Basin, a small graben created during Mesozoic rifting.

[2] Buck et al. state that it overlies Jurassic granite basement, and is conformably overlain by the Shanghu Formation.

[1] Alternative stratigraphic schemes for the Nanxiong basin have been proposed,[3] one of which refers to the Nanxiong succession as the Nanxiong Group, and dividing it into the Yuanfu, Zhutian and Zhenshui formations, and overlying the Albian to Turonian Changba Formation.