Geological Timescale

Stratotype Point Base of Tournaisian

http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/BaseCarboniferousSP

label Stratotype Point Base of Tournaisian
alt label
Stratotype Point Base of Carboniferous
Stratotype Point Base of Lower Mississippian
Stratotype Point Base of Mississippian
ratified GSSP true
boundary level Base of Bed 89 in Trench E’ at La Serre, (but FAD now known to be at Base of Bed 85)
comment La Serre, France
correlation event Conodont FAD Siphonodella sulcata IMPRECISE (Stratotype Point discovered in 2006 to have biostratigraphic problems, and can not be correlated with precision.)
see also
Tournaisian.pdf original
index.html original
image.php?periodid=106&top_parentid=0&imageid=333 original
source
Episodes 14/4, p. 331 336, 1991
Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 43/2, p. 195 205, 2009
status Ratified 1990
type
StratigraphicPoint original
Resource original
Concept original
has geometry Location of Stratotype Point Base of Carboniferous original
represents boundary
Base of Carboniferous original
stratotype BaseCarboniferousSP original