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. I. Raine, A. G. Beu, A. F. Boyes, H. J. Campbell, R. A. Cooper, J. S. Crampton, M. P. Crundwell, C. J. Hollis, and H. E. G. Morgans. 2015. Revised Calibration of the New Zealand Geological Timescale: NZGT2015/1. GNS Science Report 2012(39) 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
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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 126689 collections
| International Chronostratigraphic Timescale | Cretaceous Subepochs | Cretaceous-Cenozoic of New Zealand | Ten Million Year Bins | Cretaceous North American Land-Mammal Ages | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cretaceous | Late Cretaceous | Maastrichtian | Senonian | Mata | Haumurian | Cretaceous 8 | Lancian/Edmontonian | 66 | ||
| Campanian | Cretaceous 7 | Judithian/Aquilan | 72.1 | |||||||
| Santonian | Piripauan | Cretaceous 6 | 83.6 | |||||||
| Raukumara | Teratan | 86.1 | ||||||||
| Coniacian | 86.3 | |||||||||
| Turonian | 89.8 | |||||||||
| Mangaotanean | 90.5 | |||||||||
| Arowhanan | 93.7 | |||||||||
| Cenomanian | Cretaceous 5 | 93.9 | ||||||||
| Clarence | Ngaterian | 95.2 | ||||||||
| Motuan | 99.5 | |||||||||
| Early Cretaceous | Albian | Gallic | Cretaceous 4 | 100.5 | ||||||
| Urutawan | 103.3 | |||||||||
| Taitai | Korangan | 108.4 | ||||||||
| Aptian | Cretaceous 3 | 113 | ||||||||
| 117.5 | ||||||||||
| Barremian | Cretaceous 2 | 121.4 | ||||||||
| Hauterivian | Neocomian | 125.77 | ||||||||
| Valanginian | Cretaceous 1 | 132.6 | ||||||||
| Berriasian | 139.8 | |||||||||
| 145 | ||||||||||