«Gryphiten-Sandkalk»

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
«Gryphiten-Sandkalk»
Français
«Grès à Gryphées»
Origin of the Name

Gryphaea

Historical Variants

grès à gryphées (Rollier 1898: 9f), Grès à Gryphées (Rollier 1910)

Links

Possible confusion

Components

Fossil Content
  • Gryphaeidae

Hierarchy and sequence

Superordinate unit

Age

Age at top
  • late Sinemurian
Note about top

obtusum-Zone

Age at base
  • early Sinemurian
Note about base

semicostatum-Z.

Geography

Type area
Solothurner Faltenjura

Palaenography and tectonic

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