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
- F. M. Gradstein, J. G. Ogg, M. D. Schmitz and G. M. Ogg. 2020. Geologic Time Scale 2020 view
- F. M. Gradstein, J. G. Ogg, and A. G. Smith. 2004. A Geologic Time Scale 2004 1-589 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
- Z.-X. Qiu and Z.-D. Qiu. 1995. Chronological sequence and subdivision of Chinese Neogene mammalian faunas. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 116(1-2):41-70 view
- 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
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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.
This timescale is used in the definition of 126689 collections
| International Chronostratigraphic Timescale | North American Land Mammal Ages | Cenozoic Subepochs | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18.5 | |||||||||||
| Paleogene | Oligocene | Chattian | Arikareean | Late Oligocene | 23.03 | ||||||
| Rupelian | Early Oligocene | 27.82 | |||||||||
| Whitneyan | 29.5 | ||||||||||
| Orellan | 31.8 | ||||||||||
| Eocene | Priabonian | Chadronian | Late Eocene | 33.9 | |||||||
| Duchesnean | 37 | ||||||||||
| Bartonian | Middle Eocene | 37.71 | |||||||||
| Uintan | 39.7 | ||||||||||
| Lutetian | 41.2 | ||||||||||
| Bridgerian | 46.2 | ||||||||||
| Ypresian | Early Eocene | 47.8 | |||||||||
| Wasatchian | 50.5 | ||||||||||
| Clarkforkian | 54.9 | ||||||||||
| Paleocene | Thanetian | Late Paleocene | 56 | ||||||||
| Tiffanian | 56.2 | ||||||||||
| Selandian | Middle Paleocene | 59.2 | |||||||||
| Torrejonian | 60.9 | ||||||||||
| Danian | Early Paleocene | 61.6 | |||||||||
| Puercan | 63.8 | ||||||||||
| 66 | |||||||||||