INTERNATIONAL CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC CHART

Priabonian
Bartonian
Eocene

Lutetian
Ypresian

Paleocene

Thanetian
Selandian
Danian
Maastrichtian

Cretaceous

Mesozoic

Santonian
Coniacian
Turonian
Cenomanian

13.82
15.97
20.44
23.03

Valanginian
Berriasian

38.0
41.3
47.8
56.0
59.2
61.6
66.0
72.1 0.2
83.6 0.2
86.3 0.5

Sinemurian
Hettangian
Rhaetian
Upper

Middle
Lower
Lopingian

100.5

~ 125.0
~ 129.4
~ 132.9
~ 139.8
~ 145.0

Ladinian
Anisian
Olenekian
Induan
Changhsingian
Wuchiapingian
Capitanian

Guadalupian

Wordian
Roadian
Kungurian

Cisuralian

Artinskian
Sakmarian

Middle

Asselian
Gzhelian
Kasimovian
Moscovian

Lower

Bashkirian

Upper

Serpukhovian

Middle

Visean

Upper

174.1 1.0

Tournaisian

~ 237
~ 242
247.2
251.2
252.17 0.06
254.14 0.07
259.8 0.4
265.1 0.4
268.8 0.5
272.3 0.5

Pridoli

Givetian
Eifelian

Pragian

Ludlow
Wenlock
Llandovery

Upper

Ludfordian
Gorstian
Homerian
Sheinwoodian
Telychian
Aeronian
Rhuddanian
Hirnantian
Katian
Sandbian

Middle

Lower

Darriwilian
Dapingian
Floian

283.5 0.6

Tremadocian

290.1 0.26

Stage 10

Furongian

295.0 0.18
298.9 0.15
303.7 0.1
307.0 0.1
315.2 0.2
323.2 0.4

Series 3

Jiangshanian
Paibian
Guzhangian
Drumian
Stage 5

Series 2

330.9 0.2

Stage 4
Stage 3
Stage 2

358.9 0.4

Neoproterozoic

372.2 1.6

Lochkovian

~ 208.5

~ 227

393.3 1.2

Terreneuvian

407.6 2.6
410.8 2.8
419.2 3.2
423.0 2.3
425.6 0.9
427.4 0.5
430.5 0.7
433.4 0.8
438.5 1.1
440.8 1.2
443.4 1.5
445.2 1.4
453.0 0.7
458.4 0.9
467.3 1.1
470.0 1.4
477.7 1.4
485.4 1.9
~ 489.5
~ 494
~ 497
~ 500.5
~ 504.5
~ 509
~ 514
~ 521
~ 529

Fortunian
541.0 1.0

numerical
age (Ma)

~ 541.0 1.0

~ 635

Cryogenian

850

Tonian

1000

Stenian

382.7 1.6
387.7 0.8

GSSP
GSSA

GSSP

Eo
n

GSSP

o th
e
Er
a th m / E
on
em
Sy
ste / Era
m
/P
e ri
od

Middle

Lower

199.3 0.3
201.3 0.2

Ediacaran

Famennian

Emsian

190.8 1.0

System / Period

Frasnian

182.7 0.7

346.7 0.4

Lower

Upper

157.3 1.0

Norian
Carnian

89.8 0.3
93.9

Pliensbachian

152.1 0.9

Devonian

Jurassic

33.9

Aptian

Hauterivian

Lower

28.1

~ 113.0

Barremian

Toarcian

11.62

Albian

Lower

o th
e
Er
a th m / E
on
em
Sy
ste / Era
m
/P
e ri
od

7.246

Campanian
Upper

Eo
n

5.333

Middle

Eonothem
/ Eon Erathem / Era

358.9 0.4

~ 145.0

163.5 1.0
166.1 1.2
168.3 1.3
170.3 1.4

numerical
age (Ma)

Precambrian
Proterozoic

Rupelian

2.588
3.600

Stage / Age

Archean

Paleogene

Chattian

1.806

Oxfordian
Callovian
Bathonian
Bajocian
Aalenian

Series / Epoch

Cambrian

Aquitanian

0.781

Kimmeridgian

numerical
age (Ma)

Phanerozoic
Paleozoic
Ordovician
Silurian

Serravallian
Langhian
Burdigalian

Upper

Mississippian Pennsylvanian

Miocene

Stage / Age

Tithonian

Triassic

Upper
Middle
Calabrian
Gelasian
Piacenzian
Zanclean
Messinian
Tortonian

Oligocene

Phanerozoic

present

Permian

Neogene

Cenozoic

Pliocene

Series / Epoch

0.0117
0.126

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Mesozoic

Pleistocene

numerical
age (Ma)

Paleozoic
Carboniferous

Holocene

Stage / Age

Phanerozoic

Quaternary

Series / Epoch

GSSP

Eo
n

o th
em
Er
/
a th
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/E
Sy
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Mesoproterozoic

1200

Ectasian

1400

Calymmian

1600

Statherian
Paleoproterozoic

1800

Orosirian

2050

Rhyacian

2300

Siderian

2500

Neoarchean

2800

Mesoarchean

3200

Paleoarchean

3600

Eoarchean

Hadean

4000
~ 4600

Units of all ranks are in the process of being defined by Global

Boundary Stratotype Section and Points (GSSP) for their lower
boundaries, including those of the Archean and Proterozoic, long
defined by Global Standard Stratigraphic Ages (GSSA). Charts and
detailed information on ratified GSSPs are available at the website
http://www.stratigraphy.org. The URL to this chart is found below.
Numerical ages are subject to revision and do not define units in
the Phanerozoic and the Ediacaran; only GSSPs do. For boundaries
in the Phanerozoic without ratified GSSPs or without constrained
numerical ages, an approximate numerical age (~) is provided.
Numerical ages for all systems except Permian,Triassic, Cretaceous
and Precambrian are taken from A Geologic Time Scale 2012 by
Gradstein et al. (2012); those for the Permian, Triassic and
Cretaceous were provided by the relevant ICS subcommissions.

Coloring follows the Commission for the

Geological Map of the World. http://www.ccgm.org
Chart drafted by K.M. Cohen, S. Finney, P.L. Gibbard
(c) International Commission on Stratigraphy, January 2013
http://www.stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/ChronostratChart2013-01.pdf