The ocean- continent transition period of the Carboniferous system in the north of Xinjiang has experienced the following two evolvement stages: stretch in the collision diapause--- closure of remnant ocean stage and collision stage between continent and continent in the early Carboniferous, and stretch collapse---deformation stage inside the plate after the collision at the late Carboniferous. According to the plate structure activity background of Carboniferous and combining the regional structure---sedimentary rock structure, it makes analysis and initially draws up that the types of the early Carboniferous prototype basin in the north of Xinjiang mainly include five categories: Remnant Ocean, epicontinental sinking, taphrogenic trough, rift valley and intracontinental sinking; the late Carboniferous prototype basins can be briefly divided into three categories: taphrogenic trough, epicontinental sinking and rift valley or rupture. According to the superposition alteration features at later stage of the Upper Carboniferous prototype basins, it can divide the Upper Carboniferous remnant basins and their superposition alteration categories which are preserved in the north of Xinjiang nowadays into two main types and six subtypes: above all, they can be divided into inheritance model and superposition model based on whether there is Permian system. Then according to the superposition features of Mesozoic and Cenozoic basins, they can be divided into five subtypes, which are successive inheritance model, early inheritance and early superposition model, early inheritance and late superposition model, Trias superposition model, Jurassic superposition model and cretaceous superposition model.