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. 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 127258 collections
| International Chronostratigraphic Timescale | Ten Million Year Bins | Cenozoic Subepochs | European Faunal Zones | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quaternary | Holocene | Meghalayan | Cenozoic 6 | 0 | ||
| Northgrippian | 0.0042 | |||||
| Greenlandian | 0.0082 | |||||
| Pleistocene | Late Pleistocene | Late Pleistocene | 0.0117 | |||
| Chibanian | Middle Pleistocene | 0.129 | ||||
| Calabrian | Early Pleistocene | 0.774 | ||||
| Gelasian | MN 17 | 1.8 | ||||
| Neogene | Pliocene | Piacenzian | Late Pliocene | MN 16 | 2.58 | |
| MN 15 | 3.2 | |||||
| Zanclean | Early Pliocene | 3.6 | ||||
| MN 14 | 4.2 | |||||
| MN 13 | 4.9 | |||||
| Miocene | Messinian | Late Miocene | 5.333 | |||
| Tortonian | MN 12 | 7.246 | ||||
| MN 11 | 7.75 | |||||
| MN 10 | 8.7 | |||||
| MN 9 | 9.7 | |||||
| MN 7 + 8 | 11.1 | |||||
| Serravallian | Cenozoic 5 | Middle Miocene | 11.63 | |||
| MN 6 | 12.8 * | |||||
| Langhian | MN 5 | 13.82 | ||||
| Burdigalian | Early Miocene | MN 4 | 15.98 | |||
| MN 3 | 16.9 | |||||
| MN 2 | 20 | |||||
| Aquitanian | 20.44 | |||||
| MN 1 | 22.4 | |||||
| Paleogene | Oligocene | Chattian | Cenozoic 4 | Late Oligocene | 23.03 | |
| Rupelian | Early Oligocene | 27.82 | ||||
| Eocene | Priabonian | Cenozoic 3 | Late Eocene | 33.9 | ||
| Bartonian | Middle Eocene | 37.71 | ||||
| Lutetian | Cenozoic 2 | 41.2 | ||||
| Ypresian | Early Eocene | 47.8 | ||||
| Paleocene | Thanetian | Cenozoic 1 | Late Paleocene | 56 | ||
| Selandian | Middle Paleocene | 59.2 | ||||
| Danian | Early Paleocene | 61.6 | ||||
| 66 | ||||||