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                                 Neogene Period
 
                  From 23.03 +/- 0.05 To -5.5012e-005 +/- 0 Ma
 
  Start Defined By:  Base of magnetic polarity chronozone C6Cn.2n; lowest 
     occurrence of planktonic foraminifer Paragloborotalia kugleri; near 
     extinction of calcareous nannofossil Reticulofenestra bisecta (base Zone 
     NN1).
  End Defined By:  Today (in Myr before 1950)
 
  Start Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
 
  Comment:  Alternative End is the start of the Pleistocene.  In such systems 
     the last portion of the Phanerozoic isoften refered to as the Pleistogene.
 
 -- Overlaps With --
  Australian Stage:     Longfordian (27.5 - 16.5)
  Californian Stage:    Zemorrian   (33.5 - 22)
  Informal Sub-era:     Tertiary    (65.5 - 1.806)
  North American Stage: Arikareean  (30.5 - 19)
 
 -- A Substage of --
  Eon: Phanerozoic (542 - -5.5012e-005)
  Era: Cenozoic    (65.5 - -5.5012e-005)
 
 -- Preceeded By --
  Period:            Paleogene      (65.5 - 23.03)
  Epoch:             Oligocene      (33.9 - 23.03)
  Sub-Epoch:         Late Oligocene (28.4 - 23.03)
  ICS Stage:         Chattian       (28.4 - 23.03)
  New Zealand Stage: Waitakian      (27 - 23.03)
 
 -- Contains the Following Epochs --
  Epoch: Miocene     (23.03 - 5.332)
  Epoch: Pliocene    (5.332 - 1.806)
  Epoch: Pleistocene (1.806 - 0.01143)
  Epoch: Holocene    (0.01143 - -5.5012e-005)
 

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