Dentalienton-Formation
Back to Southern GermanyRepresentation and status
- Index
- jmDT
- Color CMYK
- (0%,16%,34%,25%)
- Color RGB
- R: 190 G: 160 B: 125
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- valid formal name
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Dentalienton-Formation
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- Italiano
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- English
- Dentalienton-Formation
- Origin of the Name
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Namengebendes Fossil: Scaphopode Laevidentalium entalloides (Deslongchamps) = Dentalium parkinsoni Quenstedt. Siehe auch Lithostratigraphisches Lexikon Deutschland (LithoLex).
- Historical Variants
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Dentalien-Tone (Schlegelmilch 1985), Dentalienton-Formation (STD 2002/2016, Bloos et al. 2005, LGRB 2016)
Description
- Thickness
- 3-25 m (LithoLex), bis max. 36 m (Bloos et al. 2005)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Subordinate units
Age
- Age at top
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- middle Bathonian
- Age at base
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- early Bathonian
Geography
- Geographical extent
- Wutachgebiet und Schwäbische Alb (Baden-Württemberg, SW-Deutschland).
Palaenography and tectonic
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- Dogger of the Jura Mountains
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
- Kind of protolith
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- sedimentary
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Fuscusbank
- Name Origin
- Namengebendes Fossil (Ammonitenart): Oecotraustes fuscus.
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Bed
- Status
- informal term
- In short
- Kalkhorizont im mittleren Teil der Dentalienton-Fm.
- Age
- Bathonian
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Wettbachton
- Name Origin
- Fluss Wettbach (Deutschland)
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic unit
- Status
- informal term
- In short
- Tonmergelabfolge im unteren Teil der Dentalienton-Fm.
- Age
- late Bajocian