Astaracian subage
15.98 - 11.63 Ma
The definition of this interval in the timescale European Faunal Units is taken from the following source:
- F. F. Steininger, W. A. Berggren, D. V. Kent, R. L. Bernor, S. Sen and J. Agusti. 1996. Circum-Mediterranean Neogene (Miocene and Pliocene) marine-continental chronologic correlations of European mammal units. The Evolution of Western Eurasian Neogene Mammal Faunas (eds. R. L. Bernor, V. Fahlbusch, and H.-W. Mittmann) view
There are intervals in 9 timescales which overlap this one. show
This interval is used in the definition of 6 collections
A total of 4349 collections with 45037 occurrences lie within this time span
| International Chronostratigraphic Timescale | European Faunal Units | Cenozoic Subepochs | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quaternary | Holocene | Meghalayan | 0 | ||
| Northgrippian | 0.0042 | ||||
| Greenlandian | 0.0082 | ||||
| Pleistocene | Late Pleistocene | Late Pleistocene | 0.0117 | ||
| Chibanian | Middle Pleistocene | 0.129 | |||
| Calabrian | Early Pleistocene | 0.774 | |||
| Gelasian | 1.8 | ||||
| Neogene | Pliocene | Piacenzian | Villanyian | Late Pliocene | 2.58 |
| Ruscinian | 3.1 * | ||||
| Zanclean | Early Pliocene | 3.6 | |||
| Miocene | Messinian | Turolian | Late Miocene | 5.333 | |
| Tortonian | 7.246 | ||||
| Vallesian | 8.7 | ||||
| Serravallian | Astaracian | Middle Miocene | 11.63 | ||
| Langhian | 13.82 | ||||
| Burdigalian | Orleanian | Early Miocene | 15.98 | ||
| Agenian | 20 | ||||
| Aquitanian | 20.44 | ||||
| Paleogene | Oligocene | Chattian | Late Oligocene | 23.03 | |
| Rupelian | Early Oligocene | 27.82 | |||
| Eocene | Priabonian | Late Eocene | 33.9 | ||
| Bartonian | Middle Eocene | 37.71 | |||
| Lutetian | 41.2 | ||||
| Ypresian | Early Eocene | 47.8 | |||
| Paleocene | Thanetian | Late Paleocene | 56 | ||
| Selandian | Middle Paleocene | 59.2 | |||
| Danian | Early Paleocene | 61.6 | |||
| 66 | |||||