In this paper, we discuss the boundedness of the fractional type Marcinkiewicz integral operators associated to surfaces, and we extend a result given by Chen et al. (J. Math. Anal. Appl. 276:691-708, 2002). They showed that under certain conditions the fractional type Marcinkiewicz integral operators are bounded from the Triebel-Lizorkin spacesḞ αRecently the second author, together with Xue and Yan, greatly weakened their assumptions. In this paper, we extend their results to the case where the operators are associated to the surfaces of the formTo prove our result, we discuss a characterization of the homogeneous Triebel-Lizorkin spaces in terms of lacunary sequences. MSC: Primary 42B20; secondary 42B25; 47G10