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Homotaxial

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ho·mo·tax·is  (hm-tkss, hm-)
n.
Similarity of stratigraphic arrangement and fossils in noncontemporaneous or widely separated geologic deposits.

homo·taxic (-tksk), homo·taxi·al (-tks-l) adj.


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15) Childe (1963: 63), following Huxley, who first used homotaxial (always occupying the same relative position in a sequence) and systadial (representing the same stage in an evolutionary sequence) in his Presidential Address to the Geological Society in 1862.
 
 
 
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