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                               Zanclean ICS Stage
                         (Zanclian, Tabianian, Dacian)
 
                    From 5.332 +/- 0.005 To 3.6 +/- 0.005 Ma
 
  Start Defined By:  Top of magnetic polarity chronozone C3r, ~100 kyr before 
     Thvera normal-polarity subchronozone (C3n.4n).  Calcareous nannofossils -- 
     near extinction level of Triquetrorhabdulus rugosus (base Zone CN10b) and 
     the lowest occurrence of Ceratolithus acutus.
  End Defined By:  Base of magnetic polarity chronozone C2An (Gauss); 
     extinction levels of planktonic foraminifers Globorotalia margaritae and 
     Pulleniatina primalis.
 
  Start Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
  End Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
 
  Global Stratotype Section and Point:  Trubi Formation, Eraclea Minoa, Sicily, 
     Italy
 
 -- Overlaps With --
  Australian Stage:     Mitchellian (10.5 - 5)
  Australian Stage:     Kalimnan    (4.3 - 3.4)
  New Zealand Stage:    Kapitean    (6 - 4.8)
  North American Stage: Hemphillian (9 - 4.75)
  North American Stage: Blancan     (4.75 - 1.806)
 
 -- A Substage of --
  Eon:               Phanerozoic    (542 - -5.5012e-005)
  Era:               Cenozoic       (65.5 - -5.5012e-005)
  Period:            Neogene        (23.03 - -5.5012e-005)
  Epoch:             Pliocene       (5.332 - 1.806)
  Sub-Epoch:         Early Pliocene (5.332 - 3.6)
  Californian Stage: Delmontian     (7.5 - 2.9)
  Informal Sub-era:  Tertiary       (65.5 - 1.806)
  Japanese Stage:    Yuian          (9.5 - 3.6)
 
 -- Preceeded By --
  Epoch:     Miocene      (23.03 - 5.332)
  Sub-Epoch: Late Miocene (11.608 - 5.332)
  ICS Stage: Messinian    (7.246 - 5.332)
 
 -- Followed By --
  Sub-Epoch:         Late Pliocene (3.6 - 1.806)
  ICS Stage:         Piacenzian    (3.6 - 2.588)
  Japanese Stage:    Totomian      (3.6 - 3)
  New Zealand Stage: Waipipian     (3.6 - 2.6)
 
 -- Contains the Following Stages --
  Australian Stage:  Cheltenhamian (5 - 4.3)
  New Zealand Stage: Opoitian      (4.8 - 3.6)
 

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