hettangian

/HH EH1 T EY1 N JH IY0 AH0 N/
noun
  1. 1

    (geology, paleontology) The earliest age of the Jurassic period, from 199.3–201.3Ma

  2. 2

    The corresponding lowest stage of the Jurassic system, marked by the lowest strata in which the neoammonite genus Psiloceras appears.

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