«Gryphäenkalk»
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- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Bed
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- «Gryphäenkalk»
- Français
- «Calcaire à Gryphées»
- Italiano
- «Calcare a Gryphaea»
- English
- «Gryphaea Limestone»
- Origin of the Name
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Namengebendes Fossil (Bivalvia): Gryphaea arcuata Lamarck.
- Historical Variants
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Calcaires à bélemnites (Gueymard 1830), banc rempli de gryphées arquées (Lugeon 1903), calcaires à Gryphées (Haug 1910), Sinémurien = calcaires à Gryphées (Lugeon 1914), Gryphäenbank (von Tavel 1936), Gryphaeen-Horizonte, Gryphaeen-Sandstein
Age
- Age at top
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- Sinemurian
- Age at base
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- Sinemurian
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Ferdenpass, Nievenpass, Restirothorn.
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Liassic of the Helvetics
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary