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Record 1 2011-07-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chronology
  • Petrography
  • Geology
DEF

A Lower Cretaceous stage between Purbeckian and Gault.

DEF

Variable unit of Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous age.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chronologie
  • Pétrographie
  • Géologie
DEF

Faciès du Crétacé inférieur.

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-12-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Marine Biology
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
  • Paleontology
DEF

A coral that does not form part of a colony.

CONT

solitary coral. - Coral polyps can be solitary or colonial. Solitary forms remain as a single individual polyp and one corallite.

CONT

Corals are not restricted to just reefs, many solitary corals may be found in rocks where reefs are not present(such as Cyclocyathus which occurs in the Cretaceous period Gault clay formation of England).

OBS

solitary coral: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie marine
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
  • Paléontologie
DEF

[Polypier] formé d'un seul calice, conique, pourvu de son système de cloisons.

OBS

polypier : Sécrétion calcaire produite par un groupe de polypes et sur laquelle ils vivent agrégés. Les coraux sont des polypiers.

OBS

M. de Réaumur nommait le corail un polypier, comme on nomme un nid de guêpes un guêpier; cette idée était très fausse, et a été pourtant généralement adoptée d'après cet illustre naturaliste.

OBS

coralliaire solitaire : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 3 2006-11-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Geology
  • Chronology
CONT

The Albian stage was deposited between 112.0 and 97.0 million years ago. In Hampshire and the Isle of Wight the Albian stage is represented by approximately 71 metres of clays and greensands which derive from wholly marine sediments ...

OBS

In the past, the Albian stage was also known as the Selbornian which includes the Gault and Upper Greensand.

OBS

European stage: uppermost Lower Cretaceous, or Middle Cretaceous of some authors (above Aptian, below Cenomanian).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Géologie
  • Chronologie
DEF

Étage du Crétacé inférieur situé entre l'Aptien et le Cénomanien.

Spanish

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