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                             Serravallian ICS Stage
 
                   From 13.65 +/- 0.05 To 11.608 +/- 0.005 Ma
 
  Start Defined By:  Near lowest occurrence of nannofossil Sphenolithus 
     heteromorphus, and within magnetic polarity chronozone C5ABr.
  End Defined By:  Last common occurrences of the calcareous nannofossil 
     Discoaster kugleri and the planktonic foraminifer Globigerinoides 
     subquadratus.  Associated with the short normal-polarity subchron C5r.2n.
 
  Start Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
 
 -- Overlaps With --
  Californian Stage:    Luisian      (15.5 - 13.5)
  Californian Stage:    Mohnian      (13.5 - 7.5)
  Japanese Stage:       Tozawan      (15.97 - 13.5)
  Japanese Stage:       Kaburan      (13.5 - 11.1)
  North American Stage: Barstovian   (15.5 - 11.8)
  North American Stage: Clarendonian (11.8 - 9)
 
 -- 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:         Middle Miocene (15.97 - 11.608)
  Australian Stage:  Bairnsdalian   (15 - 10.5)
  Informal Sub-era:  Tertiary       (65.5 - 1.806)
  New Zealand Stage: Lillburnian    (15 - 11.5)
 
 -- Preceeded By --
  ICS Stage: Langhian (15.97 - 13.65)
 
 -- Followed By --
  Sub-Epoch: Late Miocene (11.608 - 5.332)
  ICS Stage: Tortonian    (11.608 - 7.246)
 

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