«Untere Parkinsoni-Bank»

Representation and status

Color CMYK

N/A

Color RGB

R: 125 G: 125 B: 125

Rank

lithostratigraphic Bed

Validity

Unit is not in Use

Status

informal term

Status discussion

Nomenclature

Deutsch

«Untere Parkinsoni-Bank»

Français

«Banc à Parkinsoni inférieur»

English

«Lower Parkinsoni Bed»

Origin of the Name

Namengebendes Fossil (Ammonitenart): Parkinsonia parkinsoni.

Historical Variants

Untere Parkinsonischicht, Untere Parkinsoni-Schichten, Untere Parkinsoni-Bank (Gonzalez & Wetzel 1996)

Description

Thickness

wenige cm bis dm dick

Hierarchy and sequence

Superordinate unit

• Klingnau-Formation

Units at roof

• Klingnau-Formation
• «Obere Parkinsoni-Bank»

Units at floor

• Klingnau-Formation

Age

Age at top

• late Bajocian

Age at base

• late Bajocian

Dating Method

Ammoniten

Geography

Geographical extent

Westgrenze: Linie Gansingen – Schinznach. Ostgrenze: nicht definiert (Landesgrenze?).

Palaenography and tectonic

• Dogger of the Jura Mountains

Tectonic unit (resp. main category)

• Jura :
  Juragebirge

Kind of protolith

• sedimentary

Metamorphism

non metamorphic