六隔珊瑚属(Hexaphyllia)在新疆的地理分布十分广泛,新疆的三大山系中除北部的阿尔泰山以外,中部的天山、南部的昆仑山都有Hexaphyllia的分布,其中以天山地区数量最为丰富(图1),其种类堪称新疆和全国之首.从目前已发表的资料看,新疆天山地区是世界上早石炭世维宪期上部产异珊瑚类不可多得的地区之一. Hexaphyllia has a wide geographical distribution in Xinjiang. In addition to the northern Altai Mountains in the three major mountain ranges of Xinjiang, there are Hexaphyllia distributions in the Tianshan Mountains and the southern Kunlun Mountains, of which Tianshan is the most abundant Figure 1), its type can be called Xinjiang and the nation’s first.From the currently published data to see, Xinjiang Tianshan area is the world’s early Carboniferous Vistas of the upper production of coral genus one of the rare.