«Couches à Heterodiceras lucii»

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
«Schichten mit Heterodiceras lucii»
Français
«Couches à Heterodiceras lucii»
Italiano
«Strati a Heterodiceras lucii»
English
«Heterodiceras lucii Beds»
Origin of the Name

Présence sporadique du rudiste Heterodiceras lucii Defrance.

Historical Variants

couches à Heterodiceras Lucii Defr. (Joukowsky & Favre 1909), couches à Heterodiceras luci = Assise à Heterodiceras luci (Joukowsky & Favre 1913), Calcaire blanc à Heterodiceras luci (Rollier 1917)

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Synonyms
Calcaire de Thoiry

Description

Geomorphology
Paroi abrupte dominant les pentes relativement douces dues au Purbeckien.
Thickness
22 m (Joukowsky & Favre 1913)

Components

Fossil Content
  • rudists

Hierarchy and sequence

Units at roof

Age

Age at top
  • Berriasian
Age at base
  • Berriasian

Geography

Geographical extent
Salève
Type area
Salève (Haute-Savoie, France)

Palaenography and tectonic

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

References

Definition
Joukowsky Etienne, Favre Jules (1909) : Sur la position stratigraphique des couches à Hererodiceras luci Defr. au Salève. C.R. Acad. Sc. 149, 613
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