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                             Chadian Regional Stage
 
                          From 345.3 +/- 2.1 To 341 Ma
 
  Start Defined By:  Foraminifer, lineage Eoparastaffella simplex morphotype 1/
     morphotype 2.
 
  Start Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
 
 -- Overlaps With --
  Chinese Stage: Yanguan   (349.5 - 345)
  Chinese Stage: Datangian (345 - 333)
 
 -- A Substage of --
  Eon:                  Phanerozoic          (542 - -5.5012e-005)
  Era:                  Paleozoic            (542 - 251)
  Period:               Carboniferous        (359.2 - 299)
  Epoch:                Mississippian        (359.2 - 318.1)
  Sub-Epoch:            Middle Mississippian (345.3 - 326.4)
  ICS Stage:            Visean               (345.3 - 326.4)
  European Epoch:       Dinantian            (359.2 - 326.4)
  North American Stage: Osagean              (348 - 340)
 
 -- Preceeded By --
  Sub-Epoch:      Early Mississippian (359.2 - 345.3)
  ICS Stage:      Tournaisian         (359.2 - 345.3)
  Regional Stage: Ivorean             (348 - 345.3)
 
 -- Followed By --
  Regional Stage: Arundian (341 - 339)
 

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