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
- 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 126163 collections
International Chronostratigraphic Timescale | Obsolete Names for ICS Units | Ammonite Chrons of Northwest Europe | Central Paratethys Stages | Ten Million Year Bins | |||||
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Quaternary | Holocene | Meghalayan | Cenozoic 6 | 0 | |||||
Northgrippian | 0.0042 | ||||||||
Greenlandian | 0.0082 | ||||||||
Pleistocene | Late Pleistocene | 0.0117 | |||||||
Chibanian | 0.129 | ||||||||
Calabrian | 0.774 | ||||||||
Gelasian | 1.8 | ||||||||
Neogene | Pliocene | Piacenzian | Tertiary † | 2.58 | |||||
Zanclean | 3.6 | ||||||||
Miocene | Messinian | 5.333 | |||||||
Tortonian | Pannonian | 7.246 | |||||||
Serravallian | Sarmatian | Cenozoic 5 | 11.63 | ||||||
Badenian | 12.8 * | ||||||||
Langhian | 13.82 | ||||||||
Burdigalian | 15.98 | ||||||||
Aquitanian | 20.44 | ||||||||
Paleogene | Oligocene | Chattian | Cenozoic 4 | 23.03 | |||||
Rupelian | 27.82 | ||||||||
Eocene | Priabonian | Cenozoic 3 | 33.9 | ||||||
Bartonian | 37.71 | ||||||||
Lutetian | Cenozoic 2 | 41.2 | |||||||
Ypresian | 47.8 | ||||||||
Paleocene | Thanetian | Cenozoic 1 | 56 | ||||||
Selandian | 59.2 | ||||||||
Danian | 61.6 | ||||||||
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 | Concavum/Murchisonae/Opalinum | Jurassic 3 | 170.9 | ||||||
Early Jurassic | Toarcian | Levesquei/Variabilis/Bifrons | Thouarsense | 174.7 | |||||
180.1 | |||||||||
Serpentinum/Falciferum/Tenuicostatum | 182 | ||||||||
Pliensbachian | Spinatum/Margaritatus/Davoei/Ibex/Jamesoni | Jurassic 2 | 184.2 | ||||||
Sinemurian | Raricostatum/Oxynotum/Obtusum/Turneri/Semicostatum/Bucklandi | Jurassic 1 | 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 |