Ordovician of North America
The interval definitions in this timescale are derived from the following sources:
- F. M. Gradstein, J. G. Ogg, M. D. Schmitz and G. M. Ogg. 2020. Geologic Time Scale 2020 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 15 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 6027 collections
| International Chronostratigraphic Timescale | Ordovician of North America | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ordovician | Late Ordovician | Hirnantian | Cincinnatian | Gamachian | 443.1 | ||||
| Katian | 445.2 | ||||||||
| Richmondian | 445.5 | ||||||||
| Maysvillian | Rocklandian †/Shermanian/Ashbyan/Kirkfieldian/Blackriveran/Wildernessian/Trentonian/Franklinian | 449.6 | |||||||
| Edenian | 450.2 | ||||||||
| Mohawkian | Chatfieldian | 451 | |||||||
| Sandbian | 452.8 | ||||||||
| Turinian | 453.8 | ||||||||
| Whiterockian | Canadian † | Chazyan †/Marmor | 457.3 | ||||||
| Middle Ordovician | Darriwilian | 458.2 | |||||||
| Dapingian | 469.4 | ||||||||
| Rangerian | 470.3 | ||||||||
| Early Ordovician | Floian | Ibexian | Blackhillsian | Jeffersonian † | Cassinian † | 471.3 | |||
| Tulean | 475.3 * | ||||||||
| Tremadocian | 477.1 | ||||||||
| Stairsian | 481.7 * | ||||||||
| Skullrockian | Demingian † | 483.4 * | |||||||
| Cambrian | Furongian | Stage 10 | 486.85 | ||||||
| 488.9 * | |||||||||