Toarcian (182.7 +/-0.7 Ma)

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Rappresentazione e statuto

Index
toa
Colore CMYK
40 / 5 / 0 / 0
Colore RGB
R: 153 G: 206 B: 227
Rango
Piano cronostratigrafico
Uso
Unità in uso.
Status
termine formale valido
Discussione del statuto

Nomenclatura

Deutsch
Toarcien (CH) (DE/AT: Toarcium / Toarc)
Français
Toarcien
Italiano
Toarciano
English
Toarcian (182.7 +/-0.7 Ma)
Origine del nome

Named after the town of Thouars (Deux-Sèvres, France), S Saumur. The protected stratotype lies in an old quarry.

Varianti storiche

Lias supérieur (d'Orbigny 1842), Toarcien (d'Orbigny 1849), Thouarsien (Mayer-Eymar 1864, Mouterde 1956), 12e Etage = Toarcien (Greppin 1866)

Nota sul nome

Latin: Toarcium

Gerarchia e successione

Unità sovrastante
Limite superiore

Top lies just below the first appearance of the ammonite genus Leioceras.

Limite inferiore

Base defined by the first appearance of Eodactylites mirabile (Tethyan Realm), or alternatively by the mass appearance of other dactylioceratids together with Paltarpites paltus.

Età

Geomorfologia
  • Toarciano
Età alla base
  • Toarciano

Geografia

Regione-tipo
Deux-Sèvres (Paris Basin, France)
Sezione-tipo
  • carrière de Vrines, Thouars
    Caratteristiche del sito
    • typische Fazies
    Agibilità del sito
    • geschützter Geotop
    Nota
    • Proposed by d'Orbigny (1849) and further studied by Eudes-Deslongchamps and Welsch. Detailed biostratigraphy by Gabilly (1976), who pointed out the condensed nature (7 m altogether) of the section and the incompleteness of the record at the base.
Sezione di riferimento

Referenze

Definizione
d'Orbigny A. (1846) : Foraminifères fossiles du bassin tertiaire de Vienne (Autriche). Gide, Paris

Ce nom dérive de la ville de Thouars (Toarcium) (Deux-Sèvres), où l'on ne trouve que cet étage sur les roches aszoïques; où il a le plus beau développement en France et peut être regardé comme point type, point étalon. C'est la zone du Lima gigantea et de l'Ammonites bifrons.

Materiale e vario

Immagini
Thouars_loctyp
  • Late Toarcian

    Rango
    Sotto-Piano cronostratigrafico
    Statuto
    termine formale valido
    Age
    Toarciano tardo
  • Middle Toarcian

    Rango
    Sotto-Piano cronostratigrafico
    Statuto
    termine formale valido
    In breve
    The Middle Toarcian is defined biostratigraphically by the ammonite genera Hildoceras and Haugia.
    Age
    Toarciano medio
  • Early Toarcian

    Rango
    Sotto-Piano cronostratigrafico
    Statuto
    termine formale valido
    In breve

    The Early Toarcian is characterized almost worldwide by black shales (among which the well-known «Posidonienschiefer» of Southern Germany, and the French «schistes-carton») with an ammonite fauna composed mainly of dactylioceratids, harpoceratids and early hildoceratids.

    Age
    primo Toarciano
    • Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event

      Rango
      OAE
      Statuto
      termine informale
      In breve

      Major oceanic anoxic event of the Early Toarcian (around 183 Ma ago), documented by black shale deposits found on all major continents (no oceanic drilling cores have recovered black shales of this age as there is little or no Toarcian ocean crust remaining in the world ocean). This event correlates with a marine extinction event.

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