Callovian
English edit
Etymology edit
From French callovien, coined by Alcide d’Orbigny from Latin Calloviensis, from the Latinized name of the Kellaways area near Chippenham in Wiltshire, England.
Proper noun edit
Callovian
- (geology, paleontology) A subdivision of the Jurassic period.
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References edit
- d’Orbigny, Alcide (1842) Paléontologie française. Paris, 1842-1851: Terrains oolitiques ou jurassiques, vol. 1, p. 608