«Calcaire à Gryphaea calceola»

Representation and status

Rank
lithostratigraphic Bed
Validity
Unit is not in Use
Status
local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch
«Gryphiten-Kalk»
Français
«Calcaire à Gryphaea calceola»
Origin of the Name

Namengebendes Fossil (Bivalvia): Gryphaea calceolata.

Historical Variants

Gryphitenkalk = calcaire à Gryphaea calceola (Théobald 1948)

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Description

Thickness
10-20 cm (Théobald 1948)

Palaenography and tectonic

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