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                        Wolfcampian North American Stage
 
                           From 299 +/- 0.8 To 280 Ma
 
  Start Defined By:  Conodont, lowest occurrence of Streptognathodus isolatus 
     within the S. "wabaunsensis" conodont chronocline.  6 m higher is lowest 
     fusilinid foraminifer Sphaeroschwagerina.
 
  Start Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
 
 -- Overlaps With --
  ICS Stage:         Artinskian (284.4 - 275.6)
  New Zealand Stage: Telfordian (289 - 278)
 
 -- A Substage of --
  Eon:    Phanerozoic   (542 - -5.5012e-005)
  Era:    Paleozoic     (542 - 251)
  Period: Permian       (299 - 251)
  Epoch:  Early Permian (299 - 270.6)
 
 -- Preceeded By --
  Period:               Carboniferous      (359.2 - 299)
  Epoch:                Pennsylvanian      (318.1 - 299)
  Sub-Epoch:            Late Pennsylvanian (306.5 - 299)
  ICS Stage:            Gzhelian           (303.9 - 299)
  Chinese Stage:        Mapingian          (310 - 299)
  European Epoch:       Silesian           (326.4 - 299)
  European Stage:       Stephanian         (306.5 - 299)
  North American Stage: Virgilian          (305 - 299)
  Russian Stage:        Noginskian         (300.5 - 299)
 
 -- Followed By --
  North American Stage: Leonardian (280 - 270.6)
 
 -- Contains the Following Stages --
  ICS Stage: Asselian  (299 - 294.6)
  ICS Stage: Sakmarian (294.6 - 284.4)
 

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