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present ~ 145.0 358.9 ±0.4 541.0 ±1.0
U/L Meghalayan
Holocene 0.0042
Ediacaran
Quaternary
Devonian
Jurassic
2.58 Bathonian 382.7 ±1.6
Middle 168.3 ±1.3
Piacenzian Bajocian Givetian Meso- 1200
Pliocene 3.600 170.3 ±1.4
Middle 387.7 ±0.8 Ectasian
Zanclean Aalenian proterozoic
Proterozoic
5.333 174.1 ±1.0 Eifelian 1400
Messinian 7.246 Toarcian 393.3 ±1.2 Calymmian
Neogene
Precambrian
Langhian 15.97
Sinemurian Orosirian
Mesozoic Paleo-
Cenozoic
Silurian
Oligocene Upper Norian 427.4 ±0.5 2500
Rupelian Wenlock Homerian Neo-
Triassic
430.5 ±0.7
33.9 ~ 227 Sheinwoodian 433.4 ±0.8 archean
Priabonian Carnian Telychian 2800
Paleogene
Archean
Bartonian 438.5 ±1.1
41.2 Ladinian Aeronian 440.8 ±1.2 archean
Middle ~ 242
Phanerozoic
Phanerozoic
Phanerozoic
Eocene Lutetian Rhuddanian 443.8 ±1.5 3200
Anisian
Paleozoic
47.8 247.2 Hirnantian 445.2 ±1.4 Paleo-
Lower Olenekian 251.2 archean
Ypresian Induan 251.902 ±0.024 Upper Katian
56.0 Changhsingian 453.0 ±0.7 3600
Thanetian 254.14 ±0.07 Eo-
Ordovician
59.2 Lopingian Wuchiapingian Sandbian
Paleocene Selandian 259.1 ±0.5 458.4 ±0.9 archean
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Danian Capitanian Darriwilian 4000
265.1 ±0.4 Middle
66.0 Guadalupian 467.3 ±1.1
Wordian Dapingian Hadean
Permian
93.9 298.9 ±0.15 Numerical ages are subject to revision and do not define units in the
~ 497
Mesozoic
Phanerozoic and the Ediacaran; only GSSPs do. For boundaries in the
Cenomanian Gzhelian
Mississippian Pennsylvanian
~ 113.0 315.2 ±0.2 Wuliuan (Middle) and L/E (Lower/Early). Numerical ages for all systems except
~ 509 Quaternary, upper Paleogene, Cretaceous, Triassic, Permian and
Aptian Lower Bashkirian Stage 4 Precambrian are taken from ‘A Geologic Time Scale 2012’ by Gradstein
323.2 ±0.4 ~ 514 et al. (2012), those for the Quaternary, upper Paleogene, Cretaceous,
~ 125.0 Series 2
Barremian Upper Serpukhovian Stage 3 Triassic, Permian and Precambrian were provided by the relevant ICS
330.9 ±0.2 subcommissions.
Lower ~ 129.4 ~ 521
Hauterivian Middle Visean Stage 2 Colouring follows the Commission for the
~ 132.6
~ 529 Geological Map of the World (www.ccgm.org)
Valanginian 346.7 ±0.4 Terreneuvian
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Lower Tournaisian Fortunian Chart drafted by K.M. Cohen, D.A.T. Harper, P.L. Gibbard, J.-X. Fan
Berriasian (c) International Commission on Stratigraphy, January 2020
~ 145.0 358.9 ±0.4 541.0 ±1.0
To cite: Cohen, K.M., Finney, S.C., Gibbard, P.L. & Fan, J.-X. (2013; updated)
The ICS International Chronostratigraphic Chart. Episodes 36: 199-204.
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