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Rappresentazione e statuto

Varianti storiche: Horizont / Bank mit Ostrea cyathula (Gutzwiller 1914, Herzog 1956, Bitterli-Brunner & Fischer 1988), Cyathulabank (Koch 1923, Bitterli 1945, Fischer 1965a, Naef et al. 1985, Picot 2002, Becker 2003, Grimm 2005, Picot et al. 2008), Therwil Member (Pirkenseer et al. 2018)

Nota sul nome: Un horizon à Crassostrea cyathula existe également dans le bassin de Delémont, mais dans des niveaux plus anciens (Membre des Près Roses de la Formation de Lörrach).

Unità di rango superiore

Unità sovrastante

Unità sottostante

Estensione geografica: Partie méridionale du fossé du Haut-Rhin dans la région bâloise (Therwil, Ettingen) et extrême nord du bassin de Laufon (Brislach).
Regione-tipo: Région bâloise (BL)

Paleogeografia

Rheingraben

Termini generici

Tipo di origine

Definizione: Pirkenseer Claudius, Rauber Gaëtan, Roussé Stéphane (2018) : A revised Palaeogene lithostratigraphic framework for the Northern Swiss Jura and the Southern Upper Rhine Graben and its relationship to the North Alpine Foreland Basin. Riv. Italiana Pal. Strat. 124/1, 163–246

p.214: The Therwil Mb is dominated by disarticulated valves of Crassostrea cyathula, which either form a densely packed, sometimes sandy coquina or are distributed in a matrix of mainly bluish grey, massive marls. In the area of Basel the member seems to be developed as a relatively continuous bed of maximal 2 (possibly to 5) m thickness that pinches out near Brislach (30 cm; Koch 1923) in the Laufen subbasin.
Gutzwiller (1893) indicates a continuous occurrence of the coquina bed between the villages Therwil and Ettingen (at least 4 km). Towards the north and the west the bed dissolves into oyster patch “reefs”, isolated valves in massive marls or is entirely absent (e.g. drilling Hirtzbach; Vonderschmitt 1942).