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, and A. G. Smith. 2004. A Geologic Time Scale 2004 1-589 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. 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
- 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
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 125993 collections
International Chronostratigraphic Timescale | Ten Million Year Bins | Cenozoic Subepochs | North American Land Mammal Ages | Central Paratethys Stages | Ammonite Chrons of Northwest Europe | |||||
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Quaternary | Holocene | Meghalayan | Cenozoic 6 | Saintaugustinean | 0 | |||||
Santarosean | 0.0004 | |||||||||
Northgrippian | 0.0042 | |||||||||
Greenlandian | 0.0082 | |||||||||
Pleistocene | Late Pleistocene | Late Pleistocene | 0.0117 | |||||||
Rancholabrean | 0.014 | |||||||||
Chibanian | Middle Pleistocene | 0.129 | ||||||||
Irvingtonian | 0.21 | |||||||||
Calabrian | Early Pleistocene | 0.774 | ||||||||
Blancan | 1.4 | |||||||||
Gelasian | 1.8 | |||||||||
Neogene | Pliocene | Piacenzian | Late Pliocene | 2.58 | ||||||
Zanclean | Early Pliocene | 3.6 | ||||||||
Hemphillian | 4.7 | |||||||||
Miocene | Messinian | Late Miocene | 5.333 | |||||||
Tortonian | Pannonian | 7.246 | ||||||||
Clarendonian | 9.4 | |||||||||
Serravallian | Cenozoic 5 | Middle Miocene | Sarmatian | 11.63 | ||||||
Barstovian | 12.5 | |||||||||
Badenian | 12.8 * | |||||||||
Langhian | 13.82 | |||||||||
Burdigalian | Early Miocene | 15.98 | ||||||||
Hemingfordian | 16.3 | |||||||||
Arikareean | 18.5 | |||||||||
Aquitanian | 20.44 | |||||||||
Paleogene | Oligocene | Chattian | Cenozoic 4 | Late Oligocene | 23.03 | |||||
Rupelian | Early Oligocene | 27.82 | ||||||||
Whitneyan | 29.5 | |||||||||
Orellan | 31.8 | |||||||||
Eocene | Priabonian | Cenozoic 3 | Late Eocene | Chadronian | 33.9 | |||||
Duchesnean | 37 | |||||||||
Bartonian | Middle Eocene | 37.71 | ||||||||
Uintan | 39.7 | |||||||||
Lutetian | Cenozoic 2 | 41.2 | ||||||||
Bridgerian | 46.2 | |||||||||
Ypresian | Early Eocene | 47.8 | ||||||||
Wasatchian | 50.5 | |||||||||
Clarkforkian | 54.9 | |||||||||
Paleocene | Thanetian | Cenozoic 1 | Late Paleocene | 56 | ||||||
Tiffanian | 56.2 | |||||||||
Selandian | Middle Paleocene | 59.2 | ||||||||
Torrejonian | 60.9 | |||||||||
Danian | Early Paleocene | 61.6 | ||||||||
Puercan | 63.8 | |||||||||
Cretaceous | Late Cretaceous | Maastrichtian | Cretaceous 8 | 66 | ||||||
Campanian | Cretaceous 7 | 72.1 | ||||||||
Santonian | Cretaceous 6 | 83.6 | ||||||||
Coniacian | 86.3 | |||||||||
Turonian | 89.8 | |||||||||
Cenomanian | Cretaceous 5 | 93.9 | ||||||||
Early Cretaceous | Albian | Cretaceous 4 | 100.5 | |||||||
Aptian | Cretaceous 3 | 113 | ||||||||
Barremian | Cretaceous 2 | 121.4 | ||||||||
Hauterivian | 125.77 | |||||||||
Valanginian | Cretaceous 1 | 132.6 | ||||||||
Berriasian | 139.8 | |||||||||
Jurassic | Late Jurassic | Tithonian | Jurassic 6 | 145 | ||||||
Kimmeridgian | Jurassic 5 | 149.2 | ||||||||
Oxfordian | 154.8 | |||||||||
Middle Jurassic | Callovian | 161.5 | ||||||||
Bathonian | Jurassic 4 | 165.3 | ||||||||
Bajocian | Parkinsoni/Garantiana/Subfurcatum/Sauzei/Laeviuscula/Discites | 168.2 | ||||||||
Humphresianum | 168.4 | |||||||||
Aalenian | Jurassic 3 | Concavum/Murchisonae/Opalinum | 170.9 | |||||||
Early Jurassic | Toarcian | Levesquei/Variabilis/Bifrons | Thouarsense | 174.7 | ||||||
180.1 | ||||||||||
Serpentinum/Falciferum/Tenuicostatum | 182 | |||||||||
Pliensbachian | Jurassic 2 | Spinatum/Margaritatus/Davoei/Ibex/Jamesoni | 184.2 | |||||||
Sinemurian | Jurassic 1 | Raricostatum/Oxynotum/Obtusum/Turneri/Semicostatum/Bucklandi | 192.9 | |||||||
Hettangian | Angulata/Liasicus/Planorbis | 199.5 | ||||||||
Triassic | Late Triassic | Rhaetian | Triassic 4 | 201.4 | ||||||
Norian | 208.5 | |||||||||
Carnian | Triassic 3 | 227 | ||||||||
Middle Triassic | Ladinian | Triassic 2 | 237 | |||||||
Anisian | 242 | |||||||||
Early Triassic | Olenekian | Triassic 1 | 247.2 | |||||||
Induan | 251.2 | |||||||||
251.902 |