Neogene Mammal Ages of China
The interval definitions in this timescale are derived from the following sources:
- Z.-X. Qiu and Z.-D. Qiu. 1995. Chronological sequence and subdivision of Chinese Neogene mammalian faunas. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 116(1-2):41-70 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
- F. M. Gradstein, J. G. Ogg, and A. G. Smith. 2004. A Geologic Time Scale 2004 1-589 view
- A. D. Barnosky, M. Holmes, R. Kirchholtes, E. Lindsey, K.C. Maguire, A.W. Poust, M.A. Stegner, J. Sunseri, B. Swartz, J. Swift, N.A. Villavicencio and G. Wogan. 2014. Prelude to the Anthropocene: Two new North American Land Mammal Ages (NALMAs). The Anthropocene Review I(3):225-242 view
- 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
There are 11 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.
This timescale is used in the definition of 31 collections
| International Chronostratigraphic Timescale | Neogene Mammal Ages of China | Cenozoic Subepochs | North American Land Mammal Ages | European Faunal Zones | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quaternary | Holocene | Meghalayan | Saintaugustinean | 0 | |||
| Santarosean | 0.0004 | ||||||
| Northgrippian | 0.0042 | ||||||
| Greenlandian | 0.0082 | ||||||
| Pleistocene | Late Pleistocene | Nihewanian | Late Pleistocene | 0.0117 | |||
| Rancholabrean | 0.014 | ||||||
| Chibanian | Middle Pleistocene | 0.129 | |||||
| Irvingtonian | 0.21 | ||||||
| Calabrian | Early Pleistocene | 0.774 | |||||
| Blancan | 1.4 | ||||||
| Gelasian | MN 17 | 1.8 | |||||
| Neogene | Pliocene | Piacenzian | Yushean | Late Pliocene | MN 16 | 2.58 | |
| MN 15 | 3.2 | ||||||
| Zanclean | Early Pliocene | 3.6 | |||||
| MN 14 | 4.2 | ||||||
| Hemphillian | 4.7 | ||||||
| Baodean | MN 13 | 4.9 | |||||
| Miocene | Messinian | Late Miocene | 5.333 | ||||
| Tortonian | MN 12 | 7.246 | |||||
| MN 11 | 7.75 | ||||||
| MN 10 | 8.7 | ||||||
| Clarendonian | 9.4 | ||||||
| MN 9 | 9.7 | ||||||
| Tunggurian | MN 7 + 8 | 11.1 | |||||
| Serravallian | Middle Miocene | 11.63 | |||||
| Barstovian | 12.5 | ||||||
| MN 6 | 12.8 * | ||||||
| Langhian | Shanwangian | MN 5 | 13.82 | ||||
| Burdigalian | Early Miocene | MN 4 | 15.98 | ||||
| Hemingfordian | 16.3 | ||||||
| Xiejiaan | MN 3 | 16.9 | |||||
| Arikareean | 18.5 | ||||||
| MN 2 | 20 | ||||||
| Aquitanian | 20.44 | ||||||
| MN 1 | 22.4 | ||||||
| Paleogene | Oligocene | Chattian | Late Oligocene | 23.03 | |||
| Rupelian | Early Oligocene | 27.82 | |||||
| Whitneyan | 29.5 | ||||||
| Orellan | 31.8 | ||||||
| Eocene | Priabonian | Late Eocene | Chadronian | 33.9 | |||
| Duchesnean | 37 | ||||||
| Bartonian | Middle Eocene | 37.71 | |||||
| Uintan | 39.7 | ||||||
| Lutetian | 41.2 | ||||||
| Bridgerian | 46.2 | ||||||
| Ypresian | Early Eocene | 47.8 | |||||
| Wasatchian | 50.5 | ||||||
| Clarkforkian | 54.9 | ||||||
| Paleocene | Thanetian | Late Paleocene | 56 | ||||
| Tiffanian | 56.2 | ||||||
| Selandian | Middle Paleocene | 59.2 | |||||
| Torrejonian | 60.9 | ||||||
| Danian | Early Paleocene | 61.6 | |||||
| Puercan | 63.8 | ||||||
| 66 | |||||||