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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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 126679 collections
| International Chronostratigraphic Timescale | Ordovician of North America | Ten Million Year Bins | Ordovician of Ibero-Bohemia | |||||||||||||||
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| Ordovician | Late Ordovician | Hirnantian | Cincinnatian | Gamachian | Ordovician 5 | Kosovian | 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 | ||||||||||||||||||