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                              Piacenzian ICS Stage
                          (Astian, Redonian, Romanian)
 
                    From 3.6 +/- 0.005 To 2.588 +/- 0.005 Ma
 
  Start Defined By:  Base of magnetic polarity chronozone C2An (Gauss); 
     extinction levels of planktonic foraminifers Globorotalia margaritae and 
     Pulleniatina primalis.
  End Defined By:  Isotopic stage 103, base of magnetic polarity chronozone C2r 
     (Matuyama).  Above are extinction levels of calcareous nannofossil 
     Discoaster pentaradiatus and D. surculus.
 
  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:  Punta Piccola, Sicily, Italy
 
 -- Overlaps With --
  Australian Stage:  Kalimnan    (4.3 - 3.4)
  Australian Stage:  Yatalan     (3.4 - 2)
  Californian Stage: Delmontian  (7.5 - 2.9)
  Californian Stage: Repettian   (2.9 - 2.2)
  Japanese Stage:    Suchian     (3 - 1.9)
  New Zealand Stage: Mangapanian (2.6 - 1.96)
 
 -- 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:            Late Pliocene (3.6 - 1.806)
  Informal Sub-era:     Tertiary      (65.5 - 1.806)
  North American Stage: Blancan       (4.75 - 1.806)
 
 -- Preceeded By --
  Sub-Epoch:         Early Pliocene (5.332 - 3.6)
  ICS Stage:         Zanclean       (5.332 - 3.6)
  Japanese Stage:    Yuian          (9.5 - 3.6)
  New Zealand Stage: Opoitian       (4.8 - 3.6)
 
 -- Followed By --
  ICS Stage: Gelasian (2.588 - 1.806)
 
 -- Contains the Following Stages --
  Japanese Stage:    Totomian  (3.6 - 3)
  New Zealand Stage: Waipipian (3.6 - 2.6)
 

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