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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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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 126164 collections
International Chronostratigraphic Timescale | Ten Million Year Bins | Ordovician of Ibero-Bohemia | Ordovician of North America | ||||||||||||||
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Ordovician | Late Ordovician | Hirnantian | Ordovician 5 | Kosovian | Cincinnatian | Gamachian | 443.8 | ||||||||||
Katian | Kralodvorian | Bohdalec † | 445.2 | ||||||||||||||
Richmondian | 446 * | ||||||||||||||||
Berounian | 449.7 * | ||||||||||||||||
Maysvillian | Rocklandian †/Shermanian/Ashbyan/Kirkfieldian/Blackriveran/Wildernessian/Trentonian/Franklinian | 449.8 * | |||||||||||||||
Edenian | 450.4 * | ||||||||||||||||
Mohawkian | Chatfieldian | 451.1 * | |||||||||||||||
Sandbian | Ordovician 4 | 453 | |||||||||||||||
Turinian | 453.7 * | ||||||||||||||||
Zahorany †/Vinice | Letna † | 456.2 * | |||||||||||||||
Whiterockian | Canadian † | Chazyan †/Marmor | 457 * | ||||||||||||||
Liben † | 458 * | ||||||||||||||||
Middle Ordovician | Darriwilian | Ordovician 3 | 458.4 | ||||||||||||||
Dobrotivian | 458.5 * | ||||||||||||||||
Oretanian | 459.7 * | ||||||||||||||||
Sarka † | 461.7 * | ||||||||||||||||
Dapingian | Ordovician 2 | Klabava † | 467.3 | ||||||||||||||
Arenigian | 468 | ||||||||||||||||
Rangerian | 469.1 * | ||||||||||||||||
Early Ordovician | Floian | Ibexian | Blackhillsian | Jeffersonian † | Cassinian † | 470 | |||||||||||
Tulean | 473.9 * | ||||||||||||||||
Tremadocian | Ordovician 1 | Tremadocian | 477.7 | ||||||||||||||
Stairsian | 480.3 * | ||||||||||||||||
Skullrockian/Demingian | 482 * | ||||||||||||||||
485.4 | |||||||||||||||||
487.5 |