Callovian
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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