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                                Paleocene Epoch
 
                      From 65.5 +/- 0.3 To 55.8 +/- 0.2 Ma
 
  Start Defined By:  Iridium Anomaly.  Associated with a major extinction 
     horizon (foraminifers, calcareous nannofossils, dinosaurs, etc.)
  End Defined By:  Base of negative carbon-isotope excursion.
 
  Start Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
  End Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
 
 -- Overlaps With --
  Australian Stage:     Wangerripian (61.7 - 52)
  New Zealand Stage:    Waipawan     (56.5 - 52)
  North American Stage: Clarkforkian (56 - 55.5)
 
 -- A Substage of --
  Eon:              Phanerozoic (542 - -5.5012e-005)
  Era:              Cenozoic    (65.5 - -5.5012e-005)
  Period:           Paleogene   (65.5 - 23.03)
  Informal Sub-era: Tertiary    (65.5 - 1.806)
 
 -- Preceeded By --
  Era:            Mesozoic        (251 - 65.5)
  Period:         Cretaceous      (145.5 - 65.5)
  Epoch:          Late Cretaceous (99.6 - 65.5)
  ICS Stage:      Maastrichtian   (70.6 - 65.5)
  European Epoch: Senonian        (89.3 - 65.5)
  Japanese Stage: Hetonian        (77.1 - 65.5)
  Regional Stage: Rognacian       (68 - 65.5)
 
 -- Followed By --
  Epoch:             Eocene       (55.8 - 33.9)
  Sub-Epoch:         Early Eocene (55.8 - 48.6)
  ICS Stage:         Ypresian     (55.8 - 48.6)
  Californian Stage: Bulitian     (55.8 - 53)
 
 -- Contains the Following Sub-Epochs --
  Sub-Epoch: Early Paleocene  (65.5 - 61.7)
  Sub-Epoch: Middle Paleocene (61.7 - 58.7)
  Sub-Epoch: Late Paleocene   (58.7 - 55.8)
 

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