Ten Million Year Bins
The interval definitions in this timescale are derived from the following sources:
- 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
- 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
- K. M. Cohen, S.C. Finney, P.L. Gibbard and J.-X. Fan. 2023. The ICS International Chronostratigraphic Chart v2023/09. view
- M. Freudenthal. 2006. Mammal Paleogene zones. personal communication view
There are 56 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 1 collections
| International Chronostratigraphic Timescale | Ten Million Year Bins | European Faunal Zones | Obsolete Names for ICS Units | Mammal Paleogene Zones | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quaternary | Holocene | Meghalayan | Cenozoic 6 | 0 | ||||||
| Northgrippian | 0.0042 | |||||||||
| Greenlandian | 0.0082 | |||||||||
| Pleistocene | Late Pleistocene | 0.0117 | ||||||||
| Chibanian | 0.129 | |||||||||
| Calabrian | 0.774 | |||||||||
| Gelasian | MN 17 | 1.8 | ||||||||
| Neogene | Pliocene | Piacenzian | MN 16 | Tertiary † | 2.58 | |||||
| MN 15 | 3.2 | |||||||||
| Zanclean | 3.6 | |||||||||
| MN 14 | 4.2 | |||||||||
| MN 13 | 4.9 | |||||||||
| Miocene | Messinian | 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 | 11.63 | ||||||||
| MN 6 | 12.8 * | |||||||||
| Langhian | MN 5 | 13.82 | ||||||||
| Burdigalian | MN 4 | 15.98 | ||||||||
| MN 3 | 16.9 | |||||||||
| MN 2 | 20 | |||||||||
| Aquitanian | 20.44 | |||||||||
| MN 1 | 22.4 | |||||||||
| Paleogene | Oligocene | Chattian | Cenozoic 4 | MP 30/MP 29/MP 28/MP 27/MP 26 | MP 25 | 23.03 | ||||
| Rupelian | MP 24/MP 23/MP 22/MP 21 | 27.82 | ||||||||
| Eocene | Priabonian | Cenozoic 3 | MP 20/MP 19/MP 18/MP 17B/MP 17A | 33.9 | ||||||
| Bartonian | MP 16 | 37.71 | ||||||||
| Lutetian | Cenozoic 2 | MP 15/MP 14/MP 13/MP 12/MP 11 | 41.2 | |||||||
| Ypresian | MP 10/MP 8 + 9/MP 7 | 47.8 | ||||||||
| Paleocene | Thanetian | Cenozoic 1 | MP 6 | MP 1 - 5 | 56 | |||||
| Selandian | 59.2 | |||||||||
| Danian | 61.6 | |||||||||
| Cretaceous | Late Cretaceous | Maastrichtian | Cretaceous 8 | 66 | ||||||
| Campanian | Cretaceous 7 | 72.1 | ||||||||
| Santonian | Cretaceous 6 | 83.6 | ||||||||
| Coniacian | 86.3 | |||||||||
| Turonian | 89.8 | |||||||||
| Cenomanian | Cretaceous 5 | 93.9 | ||||||||
| Early Cretaceous | Albian | Cretaceous 4 | 100.5 | |||||||
| Aptian | Cretaceous 3 | 113 | ||||||||
| Barremian | Cretaceous 2 | 121.4 | ||||||||
| Hauterivian | 125.77 | |||||||||
| Valanginian | Cretaceous 1 | 132.6 | ||||||||
| Berriasian | 139.8 | |||||||||
| Jurassic | Late Jurassic | Tithonian | Jurassic 6 | 145 | ||||||
| Kimmeridgian | Jurassic 5 | 149.2 | ||||||||
| Oxfordian | 154.8 | |||||||||
| Middle Jurassic | Callovian | 161.5 | ||||||||
| Bathonian | Jurassic 4 | 165.3 | ||||||||
| Bajocian | 168.2 | |||||||||
| Aalenian | Jurassic 3 | 170.9 | ||||||||
| Early Jurassic | Toarcian | 174.7 | ||||||||
| Pliensbachian | Jurassic 2 | 184.2 | ||||||||
| Sinemurian | Jurassic 1 | 192.9 | ||||||||
| Hettangian | 199.5 | |||||||||
| Triassic | Late Triassic | Rhaetian | Triassic 4 | 201.4 | ||||||
| Norian | 208.5 | |||||||||
| Carnian | Triassic 3 | 227 | ||||||||
| Middle Triassic | Ladinian | Triassic 2 | 237 | |||||||
| Anisian | 242 | |||||||||
| Early Triassic | Olenekian | Triassic 1 | 247.2 | |||||||
| Induan | 251.2 | |||||||||
| Permian | Lopingian | Changhsingian | Permian 4 | 251.902 | ||||||
| Wuchiapingian | Longtanian † | 254.14 | ||||||||
| Guadalupian | Capitanian | 259.51 | ||||||||
| Wordian | 264.28 | |||||||||
| Roadian | Permian 3 | 266.9 | ||||||||
| Cisuralian | Kungurian | Permian 2 | 273.01 | |||||||
| Artinskian | 283.5 | |||||||||
| Sakmarian | 290.1 | |||||||||
| Asselian | Permian 1 | 293.52 | ||||||||
| Carboniferous | Pennsylvanian | Gzhelian | Carboniferous 5 | 298.9 | ||||||
| Kasimovian | 303.7 | |||||||||
| Moscovian | Carboniferous 4 | 307 | ||||||||
| Bashkirian | 315.2 | |||||||||
| Mississippian | Serpukhovian | Carboniferous 3 | 323.2 | |||||||
| Visean | Carboniferous 2 | 330.9 | ||||||||
| Tournaisian | Carboniferous 1 | 346.7 | ||||||||
| Devonian | Late Devonian | Famennian | Devonian 5 | 358.9 | ||||||
| Frasnian | Devonian 4 | 372.2 | ||||||||
| Middle Devonian | Givetian | Devonian 3 | 382.7 | |||||||
| Eifelian | 387.7 | |||||||||
| Early Devonian | Emsian | Devonian 2 | 393.3 | |||||||
| Pragian | Devonian 1 | 407.6 | ||||||||
| Lochkovian | 410.8 | |||||||||
| Silurian | Pridoli | Silurian 2 | 419.2 | |||||||
| Ludlow | Ludfordian | 423 | ||||||||
| Gorstian | 425.6 | |||||||||
| Wenlock | Homerian | 427.4 | ||||||||
| Sheinwoodian | 430.5 | |||||||||
| Llandovery | Telychian | Silurian 1 | 433.4 | |||||||
| Aeronian | 438.5 | |||||||||
| Rhuddanian | 440.8 | |||||||||
| Ordovician | Late Ordovician | Hirnantian | Ordovician 5 | 443.8 | ||||||
| Katian | 445.2 | |||||||||
| Sandbian | Ordovician 4 | 453 | ||||||||
| Middle Ordovician | Darriwilian | Ordovician 3 | 458.4 | |||||||
| Dapingian | Ordovician 2 | 467.3 | ||||||||
| Early Ordovician | Floian | 470 | ||||||||
| Tremadocian | Ordovician 1 | 477.7 | ||||||||
| Cambrian | Furongian | Stage 10 | Cambrian 5 | 485.4 | ||||||
| Jiangshanian | 489.5 | |||||||||
| Paibian | 494 | |||||||||
| Miaolingian | Guzhangian | Cambrian 4 | Series 3 † | 497 | ||||||
| Drumian | 500.5 | |||||||||
| Wuliuan | Cambrian 3 | Stage 5 † | 504.5 | |||||||
| Series 2 | Stage 4 | 509 | ||||||||
| Stage 3 | Cambrian 2 | 514 | ||||||||
| Terreneuvian | Stage 2 | 521 | ||||||||
| Fortunian | Cambrian 1 | 529 | ||||||||
| 538.8 | ||||||||||