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                                Aptian ICS Stage
                                   (Urgonian)
 
                         From 125 +/- 1 To 112 +/- 1 Ma
 
  Start Defined By:  Magnetic polarity chronozone, base of M0r.
  End Defined By:  Calcareous nannofossil, lowest occurrence of 
     Praediscosphaera columnata (= P. cretacea of some earlier studies), is one 
     potential marker.
 
  Start Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
  End Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
 
 -- Overlaps With --
  New Zealand Stage: Mokoiwian (145.5 - 119)
  New Zealand Stage: Korangian (119 - 110)
 
 -- A Substage of --
  Eon:                  Phanerozoic      (542 - -5.5012e-005)
  Era:                  Mesozoic         (251 - 65.5)
  Period:               Cretaceous       (145.5 - 65.5)
  Epoch:                Early Cretaceous (145.5 - 99.6)
  European Epoch:       Gallic           (130 - 89.3)
  Japanese Stage:       Miyakoan         (125 - 96.6)
  North American Stage: Comanchean       (127 - 99.6)
 
 -- Preceeded By --
  ICS Stage:      Barremian (130 - 125)
  Japanese Stage: Aritan    (136.4 - 125)
 
 -- Followed By --
  ICS Stage: Albian (112 - 99.6)
 

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