More than 35 species belonging to 22 genera of fossil plants are recognized by the authors from the Shan-songgang flora in the Shansonggang Basin of Jilin, China. Among them, the coexistence of Coniopteris and Cycadocarpi-dium demonstrates that the present flora possesses the characters of the early assemblage of Early Jurassic floras in Eura-sia. Therefore, the age of the Shansonggang flora is considered the Early Jurassic.This study would be beneficial for bet-ter understanding the paleoecological and paleoclimatic characteristics of the Shansonggang Basin. Based mainly on the characters of the flora, the authors suggest that the Lower Jurassic coal-bearing strata, the Shansongang Formation, should namely be renewed.