International Chronostratigraphic Timescale
The interval definitions in this timescale are derived from the following sources:
- K. M. Cohen, S.C. Finney, P.L. Gibbard and J.-X. Fan. 2023. The ICS International Chronostratigraphic Chart v2023/09. view
- F. M. Gradstein, J. G. Ogg, M. D. Schmitz and G. M. Ogg. 2020. Geologic Time Scale 2020 view
- W. B. Harland, R. L. Armstrong, A. V. Cox, L. E. Craig, A. G. Smith and D. G. Smith. 1990. A Geologic Time Scale 1989. view
- B. D. Webby. 1998. Steps toward a global standard for Ordovician stratigraphy. Newsletters in Stratigraphy 36:1-33 view
- M. Harzhauser and W. E. Piller. 2004. Integrated stratigraphy of the Sarmatian (Upper Middle Miocene) in the western Central Paratethys. Stratigraphy 1(1):65-86 view
- F. M. Gradstein, F. P. Agterberg, J. G. Ogg, J. Hardenbol, P. Van Veen, J. Thierry, and Z. Huang. 1995. A Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous time scale. SEPM Special Publication 54 view
- J. Palfy, P. L. Smith, and J. K. Mortensen. 2000. A U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar time scale for the Jurassic. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 37(6):923-944 view
- P. L. Gibbard, M. J. Head, and M. J. C. Walker. 2010. Formal ratification of the Quaternary System/Period and the Pleistocene Series/Epoch with a base at 2.58 Ma. Journal of Quaternary Science 25(2):96-102 view
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Interval boundaries marked with * have been interpolated based on the differences between the ages for international timescale boundaries quoted in the source and the currently accepted ages for those boundaries.
Interval names marked with † are no longer in current use.
This timescale is used in the definition of 126152 collections
International Chronostratigraphic Timescale | Ten Million Year Bins | Ordovician of Britain | Ordovician of Ibero-Bohemia | |||||||||||||
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Ordovician | Late Ordovician | Hirnantian | Ordovician 5 | Ashgill | Hirnantian | Kosovian | 443.8 | |||||||||
Katian | Rawtheyan | Kralodvorian | Bohdalec † | 445.2 | ||||||||||||
Cautleyan | 448.9 * | |||||||||||||||
Pusgillian | 449.3 * | |||||||||||||||
Caradoc | Streffordian | Onnian † | 449.6 * | |||||||||||||
Berounian | 449.7 * | |||||||||||||||
Cheneyan | 451.5 * | |||||||||||||||
Burrellian | 452.7 * | |||||||||||||||
Sandbian | Ordovician 4 | 453 | ||||||||||||||
Actonian † | 453.2 * | |||||||||||||||
Marshbrookian † | Woolstonian † | 454.2 * | ||||||||||||||
Longvillian † | 455.2 * | |||||||||||||||
Zahorany †/Vinice | Letna † | 456.2 * | ||||||||||||||
Aurelucian | 456.8 * | |||||||||||||||
Soudleyan †/Harnagian/Costonian | 457.4 * | |||||||||||||||
Liben † | 458 * | |||||||||||||||
Middle Ordovician | Darriwilian | Ordovician 3 | Llanvirn | Llandeilian/Llandeilo/Late Llandeilo/Middle Llandeilo/Early Llandeilo/Late Llanvirn | 458.4 | |||||||||||
Dobrotivian | 458.5 * | |||||||||||||||
Oretanian | 459.7 * | |||||||||||||||
Abereiddian/Early Llanvirn | 461.3 * | |||||||||||||||
Sarka † | 461.7 * | |||||||||||||||
Dapingian | Ordovician 2 | Klabava † | 467.3 | |||||||||||||
Arenigian | 468 | |||||||||||||||
Arenig | Fennian | 468.4 * | ||||||||||||||
Early Ordovician | Floian | 470 | ||||||||||||||
Whitlandian | 471.1 * | |||||||||||||||
Moridunian | 474.3 * | |||||||||||||||
Tremadocian | Ordovician 1 | Tremadoc | Migneintian | Tremadocian | 477.7 | |||||||||||
Cressagian | 480.8 * | |||||||||||||||
485 * | ||||||||||||||||
485.4 |