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- German · derived fromTeil
- English todayteilzone
From German Teil + zone. Coined in 1914 by German paleontologist and geologist Josef Felix Pompeckj.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
teilzone
Today it means: 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. Full definition →
German Teil