teilzone

Meaning

Noun

  • The stratigraphic range of the rock unit between the first and last appearance datum of a particular taxon in a local area, a subset of the global biozone for that taxon.

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Origin

  • From German Teil + zone. Coined in 1914 by German paleontologist and geologist Josef Felix Pompeckj.

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