«Varicosus-Horizont»
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 125 G: 125 B: 125
- Rank
- biostratigraphic horizon
- Validity
- Unit is not in Use
- Status
- obsolete term (disused)
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- «Varicosus-Horizont»
- Français
- «Horizon à Varicosus»
- English
- «Varicosus Horizon»
- Origin of the Name
-
Namengebendes Fossil (Ammonitenart): Hysteroceras varicosum
- Historical Variants
-
Varicosus-Horizont (Fichter 1934, Rutsch et al. 1966)
Age
- Age at top
-
- Late Albian
- Age at base
-
- Late Albian
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
-
- sedimentary
References
- Definition
-
1966) :
Alpes suisses et Tessin méridional. Lexique stratigraphique international, vol. 1 Europe, fasc. 7c
4. Faricosus-Horizont (>>>) mit gekielten Ammoniten: Dipoloceras, Mortoniceras und Hysteroceras varicosum (Sowerby).
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