The Zitai or Zhitai Formation[1][2] is a geological sequence of Middle Ordovician origin, that occurs along the southeastern edge of the Yangtze Platform in southern China.

It is a purple-red limestone with a few interspersed yellow-green shale beds.

It contains a fossil fauna dominated by trilobites and nautiloids.

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