English Explanatory Dictionary

teilzone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

teilzone teilzones

Etymology

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

Synonyms

topozone
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