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
- J. A. Lillegraven and M. C. McKenna. 1986. Fossil mammals from the "Mesaverde" Formation (Late Cretaceous, Judithian) of the Bighorn and Wind River basins, Wyoming, with definitions of Late Cretaceous North American Land-Mammal "Ages". American Museum Novitates 2840:1-68 view
- M. Freudenthal. 2006. Mammal Paleogene zones. personal communication 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
- 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
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 126610 collections
| International Chronostratigraphic Timescale | Ten Million Year Bins | Mesozoic Subages | Ammonite Chrons of Northwest Europe | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jurassic | Late Jurassic | Tithonian | Jurassic 6 | Late Tithonian | Middle Tithonian | 145 | ||||||
| Early Tithonian | 146.3 * | |||||||||||
| Kimmeridgian | Jurassic 5 | Late Kimmeridgian | 149.2 | |||||||||
| Early Kimmeridgian | 152.2 * | |||||||||||
| Oxfordian | Late Oxfordian | Middle Oxfordian/Early Oxfordian | 154.8 | |||||||||
| 157.9 * | ||||||||||||
| Middle Jurassic | Callovian | Late Callovian/Middle Callovian/Early Callovian | 161.5 | |||||||||
| Bathonian | Jurassic 4 | Late Bathonian/Middle Bathonian/Early Bathonian | 165.3 | |||||||||
| Bajocian | Late Bajocian | Parkinsoni/Garantiana/Subfurcatum/Sauzei/Laeviuscula/Discites | 168.2 | |||||||||
| Humphresianum | 168.4 | |||||||||||
| Early Bajocian | 168.6 * | |||||||||||
| Aalenian | Jurassic 3 | Late Aalenian/Middle Aalenian/Early Aalenian | Concavum/Murchisonae/Opalinum | 170.9 | ||||||||
| Early Jurassic | Toarcian | Late Toarcian | Levesquei/Variabilis/Bifrons | Thouarsense | 174.7 | |||||||
| 180.1 | ||||||||||||
| Middle Toarcian | 180.4 * | |||||||||||
| Serpentinum/Falciferum/Tenuicostatum | 182 | |||||||||||
| Early Toarcian | 182.9 * | |||||||||||
| Pliensbachian | Jurassic 2 | Late Pliensbachian/Early Pliensbachian | Spinatum/Margaritatus/Davoei/Ibex/Jamesoni | 184.2 | ||||||||
| Sinemurian | Jurassic 1 | Late Sinemurian/Early Sinemurian | Raricostatum/Oxynotum/Obtusum/Turneri/Semicostatum/Bucklandi | 192.9 | ||||||||
| Hettangian | Late Hettangian/Middle Hettangian/Early Hettangian | Angulata/Liasicus/Planorbis | 199.5 | |||||||||
| 201.4 | ||||||||||||