«Couches à Natica leviathan»
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
- obsolete term (disused)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- «Leviathan-Schichten»
- Français
- «Couches à Natica leviathan»
- Italiano
- «Strati a Natica leviathan»
- English
- «Leviathan Beds»
- Origin of the Name
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Ampullina leviathan (Pictet & Campiche 1863)
- Historical Variants
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calcaire valangien à Natica Leviathan (Maillard 1889), Assise à Natica leviathan (Joukowsky & Favre 1913)
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- Synonyms
Components
Fossil Content
- gastropods
Age
- Age at top
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- Berriasian
- Age at base
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- Berriasian
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Salève.
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Cretaceous of the Jura Mountains
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic