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                            Suiningian Chinese Stage
 
                           From 161.2 +/- 4 To 149 Ma
 
  Start Defined By:  Ammonite, Brightia thuouxensis Horizon at base of the 
     Cardioceras scarburgense Subzone (Quenstedtoceras mariae Zone).
 
  Start Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
 
 -- Overlaps With --
  ICS Stage:         Tithonian (150.8 - 145.5)
  New Zealand Stage: Puaroan   (150 - 145.5)
  Regional Stage:    Volgian   (150.8 - 142)
 
 -- A Substage of --
  Eon:    Phanerozoic   (542 - -5.5012e-005)
  Era:    Mesozoic      (251 - 65.5)
  Period: Jurassic      (199.6 - 145.5)
  Epoch:  Late Jurassic (161.2 - 145.5)
 
 -- Preceeded By --
  Epoch:             Middle Jurassic (175.6 - 161.2)
  ICS Stage:         Callovian       (164.7 - 161.2)
  Chinese Stage:     Shaximioan      (167 - 161.2)
  New Zealand Stage: Temaikan        (169 - 161.2)
 
 -- Followed By --
  Chinese Stage: Penglaizhenian (149 - 145.5)
 
 -- Contains the Following Stages --
  ICS Stage:         Oxfordian    (161.2 - 155.7)
  ICS Stage:         Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8)
  New Zealand Stage: Heterian     (156 - 152)
  New Zealand Stage: Ohauan       (152 - 150)
 

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