Guppen-Fossilhorizont

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Representation and status

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Rank
lithostratigraphic Bed
Validity
Unit is in Use
Status
local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Guppen-Fossilhorizont
Français
Horizon au fossile de Guppen
Italiano
Orizzonte a fossile di Guppen
English
Guppen fossil horizon
Origin of the Name

Guppen Oberstafel (GL), in der Nähe des Hexensteins

Historical Variants
Fossilhorizont von Guppen (Bircher 1935, Schindler 1959, Dollfus 1965, Hantke et al. 2019)

Components

Fossil Content
  • ammonites
Parkinsonia parkinsoni (Sowerby), Garantia garantiana d'Orbigny

Hierarchy and sequence

Superordinate unit

Age

Age at top
  • late Bajocian
Note about top
Garantiana-Zone
Age at base
  • late Bajocian
Note about base
Subfurcatum-Zone
Dating Method
Biostratigraphie: Ammoniten der Subfurcatum- und Garantiana-Zone (Bircher 1935, Dollfus 1965).

Geography

Geographical extent
Selten oder nur andeutungsweise in den östlichen Glarner Alpen: an der Ostflanke des First, west-lich des Oberblegisees und am Gumengrat (Schindler 1959).

Palaenography and tectonic

  • Jurassic
  • Dogger
Paleogeography
North Tethyan Shelf :
marge continentale européenne
Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
Kind of protolith
  • sedimentary
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