Couches à Cancellophycus (des Préalpes)

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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
Cancellophycus-Schichten (der Préalpes)
Français
Couches à Cancellophycus (des Préalpes)
English
Cancellophycus Beds (of the Prealps)
Origin of the Name

Présence de traces fossiles du type Cancellophycus (= Zoophycos Massalongo 1855).

Historical Variants
Cancellophycus-Schichten (Buxtorf et al. 1916)

Description

Description
Marnes et calcaires , "série épaisse compréhensive, à ammonites, du Toarcien au Callovien" [www.geol-alp.com].

Age

Age at top
  • Callovian
Age at base
  • Toarcian

Palaenography and tectonic

  • Dogger
Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
Kind of protolith
  • sedimentary
Conditions of formation
"Dogger à Zoophycos"
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