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                             Burdigalian ICS Stage
 
                    From 20.43 +/- 0.05 To 15.97 +/- 0.05 Ma
 
  Start Defined By:  Near lowest occurrence of planktonic foraminifer 
     Globigerinoides altiaperturus or top of magnetic polarity chronozone C6An.
  End Defined By:  Near first occurrence of planktonic foraminifer Praeorbulina 
     glomerosa and top of magnetic polarity chronozone C5Cn.1n.
 
  Start Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
  End Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
 
 -- Overlaps With --
  Australian Stage:     Longfordian   (27.5 - 16.5)
  Australian Stage:     Batesfordian  (16.5 - 15.5)
  Californian Stage:    Saucesian     (22 - 16.5)
  Californian Stage:    Relizian      (16.5 - 15.5)
  New Zealand Stage:    Hutchinsonian (21 - 20)
  New Zealand Stage:    Cliffdenian   (16.5 - 15)
  North American Stage: Arikareean    (30.5 - 19)
  North American Stage: Hemingfordian (19 - 15.5)
 
 -- A Substage of --
  Eon:              Phanerozoic   (542 - -5.5012e-005)
  Era:              Cenozoic      (65.5 - -5.5012e-005)
  Period:           Neogene       (23.03 - -5.5012e-005)
  Epoch:            Miocene       (23.03 - 5.332)
  Sub-Epoch:        Early Miocene (23.03 - 15.97)
  Informal Sub-era: Tertiary      (65.5 - 1.806)
 
 -- Preceeded By --
  ICS Stage: Aquitanian (23.03 - 20.43)
 
 -- Followed By --
  Sub-Epoch:      Middle Miocene (15.97 - 11.608)
  ICS Stage:      Langhian       (15.97 - 13.65)
  Japanese Stage: Tozawan        (15.97 - 13.5)
 
 -- Contains the Following Stages --
  Japanese Stage:    Haranoyan (18.2 - 15.97)
  New Zealand Stage: Awamoan   (20 - 17.5)
  New Zealand Stage: Altonian  (17.5 - 16.5)
 

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