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Hettangian Stage, lowest of the four divisions of the Lower Jurassic Series, representing all rocks formed worldwide during the Hettangian Age, which occurred between 201.3 million and 199.3 million years ago during the Early Jurassic Period. The Hettangian Stage underlies the Jurassic Sinemurian Stage, and it overlies the Rhaetian Stage of the Triassic Period.

The name of this stage refers to its type district, located at the village of Hettange-Grande, near Thionville in the Lorraine region of France. The type district consists of a thick succession (57 to 70 metres, or 187 to 230 feet) of basal sandstones overlain by limestones and marls. The limestones bear the bivalve Gryphaea arcuata and other fossils that correlate to the biozone of the ammonite Psiloceras planorbis. Other species of this genus occur throughout eastern Siberia, North America, and South America, but the definitions of and relationships between Hettangian ammonites are not well established, making correlations difficult. In northwestern Europe the Lower Hettangian is referred to as the Planorbis Zone, the Middle Hettangian as the Liasicus Zone, and the Upper Hettangian as the Angulata Zone.

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