«Amaltheen-Schichten»

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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
«Amaltheen-Schichten»
Français
«Couches à Amalthées»
English
«Amaltheus Beds»
Origin of the Name

Namengebendes Fossil (Ammonitengattung): Amaltheus spp., insb. Amaltheus margaritatus (de Montfort).

Historical Variants

Amaltheentone / Amaltheenthone (Fraas (1859, Oppel 1856-1858, Moesch 1857 und 1867, Waagen 1864, Schill 1873, Frentzen 1934), Amaltheen-Thon (Renevier 1896), Amaltheen-Schichten (Buxtorf 1907, Elber 1921, Frentzen 1934), Marnes à amalthées (Donzeau et al. 1997, Brentini 2018), marnes à Amalthées (Meyer et al. 2000)

Hierarchy and sequence

Superordinate unit

Age

Age at top
  • early Toarcian
Note about top

tenuicostatum-Zone, paltum-Subzone

Age at base
  • late Pliensbachian (= Domerian)
Note about base

margaritatus-Z., stokesi-Sz.

Geography

Type area
Süd-Deutschland

Palaenography and tectonic

  • Liassic of the Jura Moutains
Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
Kind of protolith
  • sedimentary
Metamorphism
non metamorphic
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