«Anceps-Athleta-Schichten»

Representation and status

Index

i3A

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

«Anceps-Athleta-Schichten»

Français

«Couches à Anceps-Athleta»

Italiano

«Strati a Anceps-Athleta»

English

«Anceps-Athleta Beds»

Origin of the Name

Namengebende Fossilien: Ammonitenarten Reineckeia anceps (Reinecke 1818) und Peltoceras athleta (Phillips 1829).

Historical Variants

Horizon de l'Ammonites anceps et de l'Ammonites athleta (Choffat 1878), Anceps- und Athleta-Schichten (Mühlberg 1900), Anceps-Athletaschichten (Tobler 1905 Tab.5b, Disler 1941), assise à Couches à Reineckeia anceps = Couches à Reineckeia anceps = Callovien supérieur (Bourquin 1946), Anceps-Athleta-Schichten (Fehlmann & Rickenbach 1962)

Description

Thickness

0 bis mehrere m

Hierarchy and sequence

Superordinate unit

• Ifenthal-Formation

Units at roof

• Cordatus-Lamberti-Schichten

Upper boundary

Lamberti-Cordatus-Schichten

Lower boundary

Macrocephalus-Schichten

Geography

Point of interest

• Carrière des Endroits / Combe Grieurin au N de la Chaux-de-Fonds (NE)
  Site particularities
  • typische Fazies
  Site accessibility
  • verschwundener Aufschluss
  • Steinbruch, Tongrube
  Coordinates
  • (2552400 / 1217200)
  Note
  • Bourquin 1946
• Carrières Jacky, au N de la Chaux-de-Fonds (NE)
  Site particularities
  • typische Fazies
  Site accessibility
  • verschwundener Aufschluss
  • Steinbruch, Tongrube
  Coordinates
  • (2553500 / 1218900)
  Note
  • Bourquin 1946

Palaenography and tectonic

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Jura :
  Juragebirge

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

Metamorphism

non metamorphic