«Nerineen-Bank» (des Hauptrogensteins)

Representation and status

Color CMYK
siehe Hauptrogenstein
Color RGB
R: 195 G: 170 B: 120
Rank
lithostratigraphic Bed
Validity
Unit is in Use
Status
incorrect name (though informally used)

Nomenclature

Deutsch
«Nerineen-Bank» (des Hauptrogensteins)
Français
«Banc à Nérinées» (du Hauptrogenstein)
English
«Nerinean Bed» (of the Hauptrogenstein)
Origin of the Name

Namengebendes Fossil (Gastropodengattung): Nerinea, insb. Nerinea basiliensis Thurmann.

Historical Variants

Nerineenbank (Strübin 1914, Disler 1941, Schmassmann 1945, Gonzalez 1993), Nerinea Beds (Gonzalez & Wetzel 1996)

Description

Description

Fast ausschliesslich aus Neirnea basileensis bestehender Schillkalk im Dach der Unteren Oolithischen Serie.

Thickness
1-2 m (Gonzalez & Wetzel 1996)

Components

Fossil Content
  • gastropods
  • nerineans

Palaenography and tectonic

  • Dogger of the Jura Mountains
Paleogeography
Northern Tethyan Carbonate Platform :
Plateforme de Bourgogne, ... = Northern Tethyan Carbonate Platform (NTCP)
Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
Kind of protolith
  • sedimentary
Metamorphism
non metamorphic

References

Definition
Gonzalez R., Wetzel A. (1996) : Stratigraphy and paleogeography of the Hauptrogenstein and Klingnau Formations (middle Bajocian to late Bathonian), northern Switzerland Eclogae geol. Helv. 89/2, 695-720

p.708: (...) the Nerinea Beds in the western central Jura, 1-2 m thick, micritic wacke- to packstones, containing large numbers of gastropods (Nerinea basilensis);

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