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                           Tertiary Informal Sub-era
 
                         From 65.5 +/- 0.3 To 1.806 Ma
 
  Start Defined By:  Iridium Anomaly.  Associated with a major extinction 
     horizon (foraminifers, calcareous nannofossils, dinosaurs, etc.)
 
  Start Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
 
  Comment:  Tertiary is not a formally recognized ICS division.  It's end 
     varies depending on how the Quaternary is defined.  See that entry for 
     explanation.
 
 -- Overlaps With --
  Period:            Neogene     (23.03 - -5.5012e-005)
  Californian Stage: Wheelerian  (1.9 - 0.01143)
  Japanese Stage:    Kechienjian (1.9 - 1.5)
  New Zealand Stage: Nukumaruan  (1.96 - 1.1)
 
 -- A Substage of --
  Eon: Phanerozoic (542 - -5.5012e-005)
  Era: Cenozoic    (65.5 - -5.5012e-005)
 
 -- 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:                Pleistocene       (1.806 - 0.01143)
  ICS Stage:            Early Pleistocene (1.806 - 0.781)
  Australian Stage:     Werrikooian       (1.806 - 1)
  Informal Period:      Pleistogene       (1.806 - -5.5012e-005)
  Informal Sub-era:     Quaternary        (1.806 - -5.5012e-005)
  North American Stage: Irvingtonian      (1.806 - 0.3)
 
 -- Contains the Following Periods --
  Period: Paleogene (65.5 - 23.03)
 

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