European Faunal Zones
The interval definitions in this timescale are derived from the following source:
- 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 1175 collections
| International Chronostratigraphic Timescale | European Faunal Zones | Ten Million Year Bins | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 23.03 | |
| Rupelian | 27.82 | ||||
| Eocene | Priabonian | Cenozoic 3 | 33.9 | ||
| Bartonian | 37.71 | ||||
| Lutetian | Cenozoic 2 | 41.2 | |||
| Ypresian | 47.8 | ||||
| Paleocene | Thanetian | Cenozoic 1 | 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 | 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 | 497 | ||
| Drumian | 500.5 | ||||
| Wuliuan | Cambrian 3 | 504.5 | |||
| Series 2 | Stage 4 | 509 | |||
| Stage 3 | Cambrian 2 | 514 | |||
| Terreneuvian | Stage 2 | 521 | |||
| Fortunian | Cambrian 1 | 529 | |||
| 538.8 | |||||