«Macrocephalus-Schichten»
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- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 125 G: 125 B: 125
- Validity
- Unit is not in Use
- Status
- obsolete term (disused)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- «Macrocephalus-Schichten»
- Français
- «Couches à Macrocephalus»
- Italiano
- «Strati a Macrocephalus»
- English
- «Macrocephalus Beds»
- Origin of the Name
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Namengebendes Fossil: Ammonitenart Macrocephalites macrocephalus (Schlotheim 1813) (Superfamilie Stephanocerataceae).
- Historical Variants
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Macrocephalusschichten = Bildungen mit Ammonites macrocephalus (Moesch 1867, Tobler 1905 Tab.5a/b, Disler 1941), Makrocephalus-Schichten = Macrocephalus-Schichten (Mühlberg 1900), Macrocephalusschichten (Baltzer 1906, Jeannet 1951), Calcaires ocreux (Couches) à Macrocephalites macrocephalus (Rollier 1911), Macrocephalus-Schichten (Fehlmann & Rickenbach 1962)
Description
- Thickness
- 30-50 m
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
- Units at floor
- Upper boundary
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Anceps-Athleta-Schichten
- Lower boundary
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Varians-Schichten
Age
- Age at top
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- Callovian
- Age at base
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- Callovian
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
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Jura
:
Juragebirge
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Jura
:
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic