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EARLY MISSISSIPPIAN [3 records]

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Record 1 2005-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chronology
  • Geology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chronologie
  • Géologie

Spanish

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Record 2 2000-01-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geological and Other Scientific Names
OBS

A same designation could refer to a geographic or a geologic entity, sometimes with a slight variant in spelling or writing. It is important to distinguish one from the other and write each correctly according to the given context.

OBS

In the southern Rocky Mountains, disconformably overlying the Mississippian carbonates of the Rundle Group and disconformably overlain by the Triassic Spray River Formation, are sandstone and dolomite of the Rocky Mountain Group of Early and Middle Pennsylvanian age and phosphatic beds and chert of the Ishbel Group, late Early and Late Permian in age.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms géologiques ou scientifiques
OBS

La règle concernant la majuscule au générique d'un nom géologique demeure imprécise. Habituellement, les noms de divisions stratigraphiques portent la majuscule et les entités de moindre importance n'en portent pas.

OBS

Une même désignation peut se référer à une entité géographique et à une entité géologique, parfois avec une légère variante. Il importe de bien distinguer l'une de l'autre et d'utiliser la graphie correcte selon le contexte.

OBS

Dans le sud des Rocheuses reposent du grès et de la dolomie du groupe de Rocky Mountain, du début et du milieu du Pennsylvanien, et des couches phosphatées et du chert du groupe d'Ishbel de la fin du début et de la fin du Permien.

Spanish

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Record 3 1978-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

They appear in early Mississippian horizons and had already reached and passed their time of major development by the end of the Carboniferous. There were snakelike astopods, Dolichosoma and Ophiderpeton; numerous nectridians, including "horned" forms such as Keraterpeton, and the elongate Urocordylus(...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Amphibien stégocéphale, de l'époque carbonifère, ayant la forme d'un lézard à très longue queue, et dont les vertèbres ont des apophyses épineuses crénelées.

Spanish

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