Otaian New Zealand Stage
 
                          From 23.03 +/- 0.05 To 21 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).
 
  Start Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
 
 -- Overlaps With --
  Californian Stage: Zemorrian (33.5 - 22)
  Californian Stage: Saucesian (22 - 16.5)
 
 -- A Substage of --
  Eon:                  Phanerozoic   (542 - -5.5012e-005)
  Era:                  Cenozoic      (65.5 - -5.5012e-005)
  Period:               Neogene       (23.03 - -5.5012e-005)
  Epoch:                Miocene       (23.03 - 5.332)
  Sub-Epoch:            Early Miocene (23.03 - 15.97)
  ICS Stage:            Aquitanian    (23.03 - 20.43)
  Australian Stage:     Longfordian   (27.5 - 16.5)
  Informal Sub-era:     Tertiary      (65.5 - 1.806)
  North American Stage: Arikareean    (30.5 - 19)
 
 -- 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)
 
 -- Followed By --
  New Zealand Stage: Hutchinsonian (21 - 20)
 

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