Bedoulian
Back to Time ScaleRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 125 G: 125 B: 125
- Rank
- chronostratigraphy
- Validity
- Unit is not in Use
- Status
- local name (informal)
- Status discussion
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Bédoulien
- Français
- Bédoulien
- Italiano
- Bedouliano
- English
- Bedoulian
- Origin of the Name
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Named after the village of La Bédoule (Bouches-du-Rhône, France), near Cassis.
- Historical Variants
- Bédoulien (Toucas 1888, Sornay et al. 1957)
Description
- Description
- In the Helvetic Alps the Bedoulian is represented by the Rawil Member and the overlaying upper part of the Schrattenkalk Formation.
Components
Fossil Content
Ancycloceras matheronianum, Hoplites deshayesi
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
Age
- Age at top
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- Early Aptian
- Age at base
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- Early Aptian
References
- Definition
- 1888) : Note sur le Jurassique supérieur et le Crétacé inférieur de la vallée du Rhône. Bull. Soc. géol. France 16 (
- Definition
- 1957) : Crétacé (France, Belgique, Pays-Bas, Luxembourg). Lexique stratigraphique international, vol. 1 Europe, Fasc. 4a VI (