«Marnes à Astartes»

Representation and status

Color CMYK
N/A
Color RGB
R: 125 G: 125 B: 125
Rank
lithostratigraphic unit
Validity
Unit is not in Use
Status
incorrect term (disused)

Nomenclature

Deutsch
«Astartes-Mergel»
Français
«Marnes à Astartes»
English
«Astartes Marl»
Origin of the Name

Nom dérivé des petits bivalves fossile du genre Astartes sp.

Historical Variants

Marnes à astartes (Thirria 1833, Grenier 1843, Boye 1844, Contejean 1858), Marnes à Astartes (Bourquin 1946)

Nomenclatorial Remarks

Marnes supérieures à astartes (Desor & Gressly 1859) = Marnes à Humeralis

Components

Fossil Content
  • ostreids
  • crinoids
  • brachiopods

Zeilleria, Terebratula, articles de Crinoïdes, petites Huîtres (Bourquin 1946)

Palaenography and tectonic

  • Malm of the Jura Mountains
Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
Kind of protolith
  • sedimentary
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