«Calcaires à coraux»

Representation and status

Color CMYK

(0%,0%,0%,100%)

Rank

Beds (Submember)

Validity

Unit is not in Use

Status

local name (informal)

Nomenclature

Deutsch

«Korallen-Kalke»

Français

«Calcaires à coraux»

English

«Coral Limestones»

Historical Variants

Coral Limestones (Jank et al. 2006c), Calcaires à coraux (Comment et al. 2015)

Description

Thickness

12 m en Ajoie (Comment et al. 2015)

Age

Age at top

• Late Kimmeridgian

Note about top

zone à Eudoxus

Age at base

• Late Kimmeridgian

Note about base

zone à Eudoxus

Palaenography and tectonic

• Malm of the Jura Mountains

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Jura :
  Juragebirge

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

References

Definition

Jank M., Wetzel A., Meyer C. A. (2006) : A calibrated composite section for the Late Jurassic Reuchenette Formation in northwestern Switzerland (?Oxfordian, Kimmeridgian sensu gallico, Ajoie-Region) Eclogae geol. Helv. 99, 175-191

Definition

Comment Gaël, Lefort Apolline, Koppka Jens, Hantzpergue Pierre (2015) : Le Kimméridgien d’Ajoie (Jura, Suisse): lithostratigraphie et biostratigraphie de la Formation de Reuchenette. Revue de Paléobiologie 34/2, 161-194