Литосфера (Oct 2016)
Polytaxonomic and monotaxonomic zonal biochronological scales in biostratigraphy
Abstract
The method of increasing the correlation potential of zonal biochronological scales by creating the polytaxonomic complex characteristic of zone subdivisions is proposed. For this operation is necessary the normative zonal scale, by which biozones of the species of different groups of the organisms are determined. Established thus specific biozones make it possible to create the complex characteristic of zones of the normative scale and to build the autonomous zonal scales on the selected groups of organisms. The zonal subdivisions of these scales prove to be in this case comparable between themselves and with the zones of the normative scale, which makes it possible to carry out the unification of the stratigraphic scales, built according to the different groups of organisms.
