INTERNATIONAL CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC CHART

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August 2012
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Series / Epoch Stage / Age age (Ma) Series / Epoch Stage / Age age (Ma) Series / Epoch Stage / Age age (Ma) / Eon Erathem / Era System / Period age (Ma)
present 145.0 0.8 358.9 0.4 ~ 541
Quaternary

Holocene Tithonian Ediacaran

0.0117 ~ 635
Upper 152.1 0.9 Famennian
0.126 Upper Kimmeridgian Neo- Cryogenian
Middle 157.3 1.0 Upper proterozoic
Pleistocene 0.781 372.2 1.6 850
Calabrian Oxfordian Tonian
1.806 163.5 1.0 Frasnian 1000
Callovian

Devonian
Gelasian

Jurassic
166.1 1.2 382.7 1.6 Stenian
2.588 Bathonian 168.3 1.3

Proterozoic
Piacenzian Middle Bajocian Givetian 1200
Pliocene 3.600 170.3 1.4
Middle 387.7 0.8 Meso-
Zanclean Aalenian proterozoic Ectasian
5.333 174.1 1.0 Eifelian 1400
Messinian
Neogene

Toarcian 393.3 1.2 Calymmian

7.246
Tortonian 182.7 0.7 1600
Emsian

Mesozoic
11.62 Pliensbachian Statherian
Serravallian Lower 190.8 1.0 Lower 407.6 2.6
Miocene 13.82 Pragian 1800
410.8 2.8
Cenozoic

Langhian Sinemurian Orosirian

Precambrian
15.97 199.3 0.3 Lochkovian Paleo-
Burdigalian Hettangian 201.3 0.2 419.2 3.2 proterozoic 2050
20.44 Rhyacian
Aquitanian Rhaetian Pridoli
23.03 ~ 208.5 423.0 2.3 2300
Ludfordian 425.6 0.9
Chattian Ludlow Siderian

Silurian
28.1 Gorstian
Oligocene Upper Norian 427.4 0.5 2500
Triassic

Rupelian Wenlock Homerian 430.5 0.7 Neo-

33.9 ~ 228 Sheinwoodian 433.4 0.8 archean
Priabonian Carnian
Paleogene

Telychian 2800
38.0 ~ 235 Meso-
Llandovery 438.5 1.1

Archean
Bartonian 41.3 Ladinian Aeronian 440.8 1.2 archean
Phanerozoic

Phanerozoic

~ 242

Phanerozoic
Eocene Lutetian Middle Rhuddanian 3200
443.4 1.5

Paleozoic
Anisian Hirnantian
47.8 247.2 445.2 1.4 Paleo-
Lower Olenekian 251.2
Ypresian Induan 252.2 0.5 Upper Katian archean
56.0 Changhsingian 453.0 0.7 3600
254.2 0.1

Ordovician
Thanetian 59.2 Lopingian Sandbian Eo-
Paleocene Selandian Wuchiapingian 458.4 0.9
61.6 259.9 0.4 archean
Danian Capitanian Darriwilian 4000
265.1 0.4 Middle
66.0 Guadalupian 467.3 1.1
Permian

Wordian 268.8 0.5 Dapingian Hadean

Maastrichtian 470.0 1.4
72.1 0.2 Roadian Floian ~ 4600
272.3 0.5
Campanian Kungurian Lower 477.7 1.4
279.3 0.6 Units of all ranks are in the process of being defined by Global
83.6 0.2 Tremadocian Boundary Stratotype Section and Points (GSSP) for their lower
Upper Santonian 86.3 0.5 Artinskian 485.4 1.9 boundaries, including those of the Archean and Proterozoic, long
Cisuralian 290.1 0.1 Stage 10 defined by Global Standard Stratigraphic Ages (GSSA). Charts
Coniacian ~ 489.5 and detailed information on ratified GSSPs are available at the
Paleozoic

89.8 0.3 Sakmarian Furongian Jiangshanian website http://www.stratigraphy.org

295.5 0.4
Turonian Asselian ~ 494
Paibian
Mesozoic
Cretaceous

93.9 298.9 0.2 ~ 497 Numerical ages are subject to revision and do not define units in
Mississippian Pennsylvanian

Cenomanian Gzhelian Guzhangian the Phanerozoic and the Ediacaran; only GSSPs do. For boundaries
100.5
Upper 303.7 0.1 ~ 500.5 in the Phanerozoic without ratified GSSPs or without constrained
Kasimovian 307.0 0.1 Series 3 Drumian numerical ages, an approximate numerical age (~) is provided.
Cambrian
Carboniferous

Albian Middle Moscovian ~ 504.5

315.2 0.2 Stage 5 Numerical ages for all systems except Triassic, Cretaceous and
~ 113.0 Precambrian are taken from A Geologic Time Scale 2012 by
~ 509
Aptian Lower Bashkirian Stage 4 Gradstein et al. (2012); those for the Triassic and Cretaceous were
323.2 0.4 ~ 514 provided by the relevant ICS subcommissions.
~ 125.0 Series 2
Barremian Upper Serpukhovian Stage 3
330.9 0.2
Lower ~ 129.4 ~ 521 Coloring follows the Commission for the
Hauterivian Middle Visean Stage 2 Geological Map of the World. http://www.ccgm.org
~ 132.9
Valanginian 346.7 0.4 ~ 529
Terreneuvian Chart drafted by K.M. Cohen, S. Finney, P.L. Gibbard
~ 139.8
Lower Tournaisian Fortunian (c) International Commission on Stratigraphy, August 2012
Berriasian
~ 145.0 358.9 0.4 541.0 1.0