«Belemnitenschichten» (sensu Oppel 1856-1858)
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)
- Status discussion
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- «Belemnitenschichten» (sensu Oppel 1856-1858)
- Français
- «Couches à Bélemnites» (sensu Oppel 1856-1858)
- Italiano
- «Strati a Belemniti» (sensu Oppel 1856-1858)
- English
- «Belemnites Beds» (sensu Oppel 1856-1858)
- Origin of the Name
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Namengebendes Fossil: Belemnites spp., insb. Passalotheutis paxillosus (Lamarck).
- Historical Variants
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Belemnitenschichten des mittleren Lias (Oppel 1856-1858), Calcaire à Belemnites (Ant. heb. Gressly 1862), Belemnitenkalk (Lang 1863), Couches à Bélemnites (Rollier 1882), Belemnitenmergel, Belemnitenschiefer, Belemnitenkalke (Disler 1941), Carixien = Pliensbachien inférieur = Marnes et calcaires à Bélemnites (Caire 1970), Marnes calcaires à belemnites (Donzeau et al. 1997, Brentini 2018), marnes calcaires à bélemnites (Meyer et al. 2000)
Components
Fossil Content
- ammonites
- Gryphaeidae
- belemnites
- bivalves
Belemnites paxillosus Schl., Belemnites breviformis Voltz, Belemnites compressus Stahl, Prodactylioceras davoei (Sow.), Gryphaea obliqua Sow.
Age
- Age at top
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- Pliensbachian
- Age at base
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- early Pliensbachian (= Carixian)
Geography
- Type area
- Süd-Deutschland
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Liassic of the Jura Moutains
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
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Jura
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Juragebirge
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Jura
:
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
- Metamorphism
- non metamorphic