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                              Tortonian ICS Stage
 
                  From 11.608 +/- 0.005 To 7.246 +/- 0.005 Ma
 
  Start Defined By:  Last common occurrences of the calcareous nannofossil 
     Discoaster kugleri and the planktonic foraminifer Globigerinoides 
     subquadratus.  Associated with the short normal-polarity subchron C5r.2n.
  End Defined By:  Middle of magnetic polarity chronozone C3Br.1r; lowest 
     regular occurrence of the Globorotalia conomiozea planktonic foraminifer 
     group.
 
  End Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
 
  Global Stratotype Section and Point:  Monte dei Corvi beach section, Ancona, 
     Italy
 
 -- Overlaps With --
  Australian Stage:     Bairnsdalian  (15 - 10.5)
  Australian Stage:     Mitchellian   (10.5 - 5)
  Californian Stage:    Mohnian       (13.5 - 7.5)
  Californian Stage:    Delmontian    (7.5 - 2.9)
  Japanese Stage:       Kaburan       (13.5 - 11.1)
  Japanese Stage:       Yuian         (9.5 - 3.6)
  New Zealand Stage:    Lillburnian   (15 - 11.5)
  New Zealand Stage:    Tongaporutuan (10 - 6)
  North American Stage: Clarendonian  (11.8 - 9)
  North American Stage: Hemphillian   (9 - 4.75)
 
 -- 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:        Late Miocene (11.608 - 5.332)
  Informal Sub-era: Tertiary     (65.5 - 1.806)
 
 -- Preceeded By --
  Sub-Epoch: Middle Miocene (15.97 - 11.608)
  ICS Stage: Serravallian   (13.65 - 11.608)
 
 -- Followed By --
  ICS Stage: Messinian (7.246 - 5.332)
 
 -- Contains the Following Stages --
  Japanese Stage:    Fujian  (11.1 - 9.5)
  New Zealand Stage: Waiauan (11.5 - 10)
 

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