Early Triassic (251.902 +/-0.024 Ma)
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- 40 / 75 / 0 / 0 (Commission for the Geological Map of the World)
- Color RGB
- R: 152 G: 57 B: 153
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Epoch
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- valid formal name
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Frühe Trias
- Français
- Trias précoce
- Italiano
- Triassico primo
- English
- Early Triassic (251.902 +/-0.024 Ma)
- Historical Variants
-
Eotrias (Hirsch 1966)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Subordinate units
- Units at roof
Age
- Age at top
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- Olenekian
- Age at base
-
- Induan
-
Olenekian (251.2 Ma)
- Name Origin
-
Olenek = Olenyok River, N Siberian Russia
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Stage
- Status
- valid formal name
- In short
-
In Europe the Olenekian is the time when the deposition of a large part of the Buntsandstein occured .
- Age
- Olenekian
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Spathian
- Name Origin
-
Leonard Frank Spath (1882-1957), British geologist and paleontologist.
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Substage
- Status
- local name (informal)
-
Smithian
- Name Origin
- James Perrin Smith (1864-1931), US geologist and paleontologist.
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Substage
- Status
- local name (informal)
-
Induan (251.902 +/-0.024 Ma)
- Name Origin
-
Indus River in the Salt Range of Pakistan.
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Stage
- Status
- valid formal name
- Age
- Induan
-
Dienerian
- Name Origin
-
Karl Diener (1862-1928), Austrian geologist, paleontologist and alpinist.
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Substage
- Status
- local name (informal)
-
Griesbachian
- Name Origin
- Griesbach
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Substage
- Status
- local name (informal)