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Muschelkalk
Muschelkalk Musch"el*kalk`, n. [G., from muschel shell + kalk limestone.] (Geol.) A kind of shell limestone, whose strata form the middle one of the three divisions of the Triassic formation in Germany. See Chart, under Geology.

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- The Muschelkalk (German for "s****-bearing limestone"; French: calcaire coquillier) is a sequence of sedimentary rock strata (a lithostratigraphic unit)...
- the Upper Muschelkalk and Lower Keuper; N. haasi and N. tchernovi from Makhtesh Ramon, Israel; N. cymatosauroides from the Spanish Muschelkalk; N. jagisteus...
- Palatine-Saarland Muschelkalk Region (German: Pfälzisch-Saarländische Muschelkalkgebiet) - or more accurately the Palatine-Saarland-Lorraine Muschelkalk Region...
- southern Germany: the lower Buntsandstein (colourful sandstone), the middle Muschelkalk (s****-bearing limestone) and the upper Keuper (coloured clay). Early...
- of Löffingen and the village of Rötenbach. To the south is a similar muschelkalk plateau with the settlements of Bonndorf and Wutach. Over a straight-line...
- matter preservation in the Anisian Muschelkalk: Implications for the basin dynamics of the central European Muschelkalk Sea". Central European Geology. 60...
- within the Jura Mountains as geologically distinct from the Tri****ic aged Muschelkalk of southern Germany, but he erroneously concluded that they were older...
- the bed of a shallow sea, dark grey, relatively hard layers of Alpine muschelkalk (s****-bearing limestone), so-called Wurstelkalk, were laid down in the...
- top of the Muschelkalk and under the predominantly Lower Jur****ic Lias or other Early Jur****ic strata. The Keuper together with the Muschelkalk and the Buntsandstein...
- Shonisaurus po****ris Marlstone Lower Jur****ic  UK Ichthyosaurus sp. Muschelkalk Middle Tri****ic  Germany Contectopalatus, Cymbospondylus germanicus,...