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                              Berriasian ICS Stage
 
                       From 145.5 +/- 4 To 140.2 +/- 3 Ma
 
  Start Defined By:  Maybe near lowest occurrence of ammonite Berriasella 
     jacobi.
  End Defined By:  Calpionellid, lowest occurrence of Calpionellites darderi 
     (base of Calpionellid Zone E); followed by the lowest occurrence of 
     ammonite "Thurmanniceras" pertransiens.
 
  Start Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
  End Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
 
 -- Overlaps With --
  Regional Stage: Volgian     (150.8 - 142)
  Regional Stage: Portlandian (146 - 142)
  Regional Stage: Ryzanian    (142 - 136.5)
 
 -- A Substage of --
  Eon:                  Phanerozoic      (542 - -5.5012e-005)
  Era:                  Mesozoic         (251 - 65.5)
  Period:               Cretaceous       (145.5 - 65.5)
  Epoch:                Early Cretaceous (145.5 - 99.6)
  European Epoch:       Neocomian        (145.5 - 130)
  Japanese Stage:       Kochian          (145.5 - 136.4)
  New Zealand Stage:    Mokoiwian        (145.5 - 119)
  North American Stage: Coahulian        (145.5 - 127)
 
 -- Preceeded By --
  Period:            Jurassic       (199.6 - 145.5)
  Epoch:             Late Jurassic  (161.2 - 145.5)
  ICS Stage:         Tithonian      (150.8 - 145.5)
  Chinese Stage:     Penglaizhenian (149 - 145.5)
  New Zealand Stage: Puaroan        (150 - 145.5)
 
 -- Followed By --
  ICS Stage: Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4)
 

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