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                        Missourian North American Stage
                                  (Cantabrian)
 
                           From 306.5 +/- 1 To 305 Ma
 
  Start Defined By:  Near base of Obsoletes obsoletes and Protriticites 
     pseudomontiparus fusulinid zone, or lowest occurrence of Parashumardites 
     ammonoid.
 
  Start Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
 
 -- A Substage of --
  Eon:            Phanerozoic        (542 - -5.5012e-005)
  Era:            Paleozoic          (542 - 251)
  Period:         Carboniferous      (359.2 - 299)
  Epoch:          Pennsylvanian      (318.1 - 299)
  Sub-Epoch:      Late Pennsylvanian (306.5 - 299)
  ICS Stage:      Kasimovian         (306.5 - 303.9)
  Chinese Stage:  Mapingian          (310 - 299)
  European Epoch: Silesian           (326.4 - 299)
  European Stage: Stephanian         (306.5 - 299)
 
 -- Preceeded By --
  Sub-Epoch:            Middle Pennsylvanian (311.7 - 306.5)
  ICS Stage:            Moscovian            (311.7 - 306.5)
  European Stage:       Westphalian          (315 - 306.5)
  North American Stage: Desmoinian           (308 - 306.5)
  Russian Stage:        Myachkovskian        (307.2 - 306.5)
 
 -- Followed By --
  North American Stage: Virgilian        (305 - 299)
  Russian Stage:        Dorogomilovksian (305 - 303.9)
 
 -- Contains the Following Stages --
  Russian Stage: Krevyakinskian   (306.5 - 306)
  Russian Stage: Chamovnicheskian (306 - 305)
 

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