Anisian (247.2 Ma)
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- 25 / 50 / 0 / 0
- Color RGB
- R: 188 G: 117 B: 183
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Stage
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- valid formal name
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Anisien
- Français
- Anisian
- Italiano
- Anisico
- English
- Anisian (247.2 Ma)
- Origin of the Name
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Named after the Enns (= Anisus) River at Grossreifling (Austrian Alps).
- Historical Variants
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Anisien (Mojsisovics, Waagen & Diener 1895), Anisico (Pozzi 1959), Anis, Anisium (DE/AT)
- Nomenclatorial Remarks
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Virglorien supérieur
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
Age
- Age at top
-
- Anisian
- Age at base
-
- Anisian
Geography
- Type area
- Austrian Alps.
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Illyrian
- Name Origin
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Named after the antique region Illyria (western part of the Balkan Peninsula).
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Substage
- Status
- local name (informal)
- In short
- Last substage of the Anisian (Middle Triassic).
- Age
- Late Anisian
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Pelsonian
- Name Origin
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Named after Lake Pelso = Lake Balaton (Transdanubian region, Hungary.
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Substage
- Status
- local name (informal)
- In short
- Third substage of the Anisian.
- Age
- Anisian
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Bithynian
- Name Origin
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Named after the Roman province Bithynia (NW Turkey).
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Substage
- Status
- local name (informal)
- In short
- Second substage of the Anisian (Middle Triassic).
- Age
- Anisian
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Aegean
- Name Origin
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Named after the Aegean Sea (Greece).
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Substage
- Status
- local name (informal)
- Nomenclatorial Remarks
- Ägäissches Meer = mer Égée
- In short
- First substage of the Anisian (Middle Triassic).
- Age
- Early Anisian