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
- 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
- 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, J. G. Ogg, M. D. Schmitz and G. M. Ogg. 2020. Geologic Time Scale 2020 view
- A. D. Barnosky, M. Holmes, R. Kirchholtes, E. Lindsey, K.C. Maguire, A.W. Poust, M.A. Stegner, J. Sunseri, B. Swartz, J. Swift, N.A. Villavicencio and G. Wogan. 2014. Prelude to the Anthropocene: Two new North American Land Mammal Ages (NALMAs). The Anthropocene Review I(3):225-242 view
- M. Kretzoi. 1942. Necroteuthis n. g. (Ceph. Dibr., Necroteuthidae N. F.) aus dem Oligozän von Budapest und das system der Dibranchiata. Földtani Közlöny 72:125-238 view
There are 59 timescales which overlap this one. show
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 126164 collections
International Chronostratigraphic Timescale | Ordovician of North America | ||||||||||||
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Ordovician | Late Ordovician | Hirnantian | Cincinnatian | Gamachian | 443.8 | ||||||||
Katian | 445.2 | ||||||||||||
Richmondian | 446 * | ||||||||||||
Maysvillian | Rocklandian †/Shermanian/Ashbyan/Kirkfieldian/Blackriveran/Wildernessian/Trentonian/Franklinian | 449.8 * | |||||||||||
Edenian | 450.4 * | ||||||||||||
Mohawkian | Chatfieldian | 451.1 * | |||||||||||
Sandbian | 453 | ||||||||||||
Turinian | 453.7 * | ||||||||||||
Whiterockian | Canadian † | Chazyan †/Marmor | 457 * | ||||||||||
Middle Ordovician | Darriwilian | 458.4 | |||||||||||
Dapingian | 467.3 | ||||||||||||
Rangerian | 469.1 * | ||||||||||||
Early Ordovician | Floian | Ibexian | Blackhillsian | Jeffersonian † | Cassinian † | 470 | |||||||
Tulean | 473.9 * | ||||||||||||
Tremadocian | 477.7 | ||||||||||||
Stairsian | 480.3 * | ||||||||||||
Skullrockian/Demingian | 482 * | ||||||||||||
485.4 | |||||||||||||
487.5 |