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                              Hettangian ICS Stage
 
                      From 199.6 +/- 0.6 To 196.5 +/- 1 Ma
 
  Start Defined By:  Near lowest occurrence of smooth Psiloceras planorbis 
     ammonite group.
  End Defined By:  Ammonite, lowest occurrence of arietitid genera Vermiceras 
     and Metophioceras.
 
  Start Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
  End Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
 
 -- A Substage of --
  Eon:               Phanerozoic    (542 - -5.5012e-005)
  Era:               Mesozoic       (251 - 65.5)
  Period:            Jurassic       (199.6 - 145.5)
  Epoch:             Early Jurassic (199.6 - 175.6)
  New Zealand Stage: Aratauran      (199.6 - 188)
 
 -- Preceeded By --
  Period:            Triassic      (251 - 199.6)
  Epoch:             Late Triassic (228 - 199.6)
  ICS Stage:         Rhaetian      (203.6 - 199.6)
  Chinese Stage:     Erqiaoan      (209 - 199.6)
  New Zealand Stage: Otapirian     (203 - 199.6)
 
 -- Followed By --
  ICS Stage: Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6)
 

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