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                             Early Ordovician Epoch
                          (Lower Ordovician, Canadian)
 
                     From 488.3 +/- 1.7 To 471.8 +/- 1.6 Ma
 
  Start Defined By:  Conodont, lowest occurrence of Iapetognathus fluctivagus; 
     just above base of Cordylodus lindstromi conodont Zone.  Just below lowest 
     occurrence of planktonic graptolites.
  End Defined By:  Conodont, potentially lowest occurrence of Protoprioniodus 
     aranda or of Baltoniodus triangularis.
 
  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: Chewtonian (473 - 471)
 
 -- A Substage of --
  Eon:                  Phanerozoic (542 - -5.5012e-005)
  Era:                  Paleozoic   (542 - 251)
  Period:               Ordovician  (488.3 - 443.7)
  North American Stage: Ibexian     (491 - 471.8)
 
 -- Preceeded By --
  Period:                  Cambrian      (542 - 488.3)
  Epoch:                   Late Cambrian (501 - 488.3)
  Australian Stage:        Payntonian    (491 - 488.3)
  Regional Stage:          Dolgellian    (492.5 - 488.3)
  Russian-Kazakhian Stage: Batyrbayan    (491.5 - 488.3)
 
 -- Followed By --
  Epoch:                Middle Ordovician (471.8 - 460.9)
  ICS Stage:            Ordovician III    (471.8 - 468.1)
  General Stage:        Llanvirn          (471.8 - 464)
  North American Stage: White Rockian     (471.8 - 462)
 
 -- Contains the Following Stages --
  ICS Stage:            Tremadocian             (488.3 - 478.6)
  ICS Stage:            Arenig                  (478.6 - 471.8)
  Australian Stage:     Datsonian               (488.3 - 485)
  Australian Stage:     Warendian               (485 - 478.6)
  Australian Stage:     Lancefieldian           (482 - 475)
  Australian Stage:     Warendian/Lancefieldian (485 - 475)
  Australian Stage:     Bendigonian             (475 - 473)
  Chinese Stage:        Honghuayuanian          (478.6 - 472)
  Chinese Stage:        Dawanian                (472 - 471.8)
  European Stage:       Cressagian              (488.3 - 486)
  European Stage:       Migneintian             (486 - 478.6)
  European Stage:       Moridunian              (478.6 - 475)
  European Stage:       Whitlandian             (475 - 473.5)
  European Stage:       Fennian                 (473.5 - 471.8)
  North American Stage: Demingian               (478.6 - 475)
  North American Stage: Jeffersonian            (475 - 473)
  North American Stage: Cassinian               (473 - 471.8)
 

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