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noun
The stratigraphic range of the rock unit between the first and last appearance datum of a particular taxon in a local area, a subset of the global biozone for that taxon.
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History
From German Teil + zone. Coined in 1914 by German paleontologist and geologist Josef Felix Pompeckj.
