«Calcaire à Calpionelles»

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Representation and status

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Rank
lithostratigraphic unit
Validity
Unit is in Use
Status
incorrect name (though informally used)

Nomenclature

Deutsch
«Calpionellenkalke»
Français
«Calcaire à Calpionelles»
Italiano
«Calcare a Calpionelle»
English
«Calpionella Limestone»
Historical Variants

Calpionellenniveau = oberer Malm p.p. (Weiss 1949), série des calcaires compacts et sublithographiques (Spicher 1965), Calpionellenkalke (Heinz & Isenschmid 1988)

Components

Fossil Content
  • calpionellids

Calpionella alpina

Hierarchy and sequence

Superordinate unit

Age

Age at top
  • Earliest Berriasian
Age at base
  • Tithonian

Palaenography and tectonic

  • Malm of the Penninics
Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
Kind of protolith
  • sedimentary
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