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                          Honghuayuanian Chinese Stage
 
                          From 478.6 +/- 1.7 To 472 Ma
 
  Start Defined By:  Graptolite, lowest occurrence of Tetragraptus 
     approximatus.
 
  Start Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
 
 -- Overlaps With --
  Australian Stage:     Warendian/Lancefieldian (485 - 475)
  Australian Stage:     Lancefieldian           (482 - 475)
  Australian Stage:     Chewtonian              (473 - 471)
  European Stage:       Fennian                 (473.5 - 471.8)
  North American Stage: Cassinian               (473 - 471.8)
 
 -- A Substage of --
  Eon:                  Phanerozoic      (542 - -5.5012e-005)
  Era:                  Paleozoic        (542 - 251)
  Period:               Ordovician       (488.3 - 443.7)
  Epoch:                Early Ordovician (488.3 - 471.8)
  ICS Stage:            Arenig           (478.6 - 471.8)
  North American Stage: Ibexian          (491 - 471.8)
 
 -- Preceeded By --
  ICS Stage:        Tremadocian (488.3 - 478.6)
  Australian Stage: Warendian   (485 - 478.6)
  European Stage:   Migneintian (486 - 478.6)
 
 -- Followed By --
  Chinese Stage: Dawanian (472 - 471.8)
 
 -- Contains the Following Stages --
  Australian Stage:     Bendigonian  (475 - 473)
  European Stage:       Moridunian   (478.6 - 475)
  European Stage:       Whitlandian  (475 - 473.5)
  North American Stage: Demingian    (478.6 - 475)
  North American Stage: Jeffersonian (475 - 473)
 

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