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Biozone vs Teilzone - What's the difference?

biozone | teilzone |

As nouns the difference between biozone and teilzone

is that biozone is (geology) a biostratigraphic unit: an interval of geological strata defined on the basis of its characteristic fossil taxa while teilzone is 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.

biozone

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia biozone)
  • (geology) A biostratigraphic unit: an interval of geological strata defined on the basis of its characteristic fossil taxa.
  • (ecology) An ecozone.

    • Derived terms

    * biozonal

    teilzone

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia teilzone)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * topozone