Definition of BIOSTRATIGRAPHY. Meaning of BIOSTRATIGRAPHY. Synonyms of BIOSTRATIGRAPHY

- Biostratigraphy is the branch of stratigraphy which focuses on correlating and ****igning relative ages of rock strata by using the fossil ****emblages...
- three related subfields: lithostratigraphy (lithologic stratigraphy), biostratigraphy (biologic stratigraphy), and chronostratigraphy (stratigraphy by age)...
- Dinosaur biostratigraphy studies the distribution of dinosaur taxa through rock layers. It can be useful for dating and correlating rock units and reconstructing...
- The Darriwilian is the upper stage of the Middle Ordovician. It is preceded by the Dapingian and succeeded by the Upper Ordovician Sandbian Stage. The...
- trilobites, ammonites, ...) in the subfield of the stratigraphy named biostratigraphy. It has been suggested that Eoconodontus notchpeakensis can be a marker...
- age can be improved. Geochronology is different in application from biostratigraphy, which is the science of ****igning sedimentary rocks to a known geological...
- Verzi, Diego H.; Montalvo, Claudia I.; Deschamps, Cecilia M. (2008), "Biostratigraphy and biochronology of the Late Miocene of central Argentina: Evidence...
- million years ago) of the Ordovician. It is an important index fossil in biostratigraphy. Like other members of the genus, Iapetognathus fluctivagus had ramiform...
- have to rely on relative dating by solving the "jigsaw puzzles" of biostratigraphy (arrangement of rock layers from youngest to oldest). classifying ancient...
- Cambrian Stage 3 is the still unnamed third stage of the Cambrian. It succeeds Cambrian Stage 2 and precedes Cambrian Stage 4, although neither its base...