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                         Virgilian North American Stage
 
                           From 305 To 299 +/- 0.8 Ma
 
  End Defined By:  Conodont, lowest occurrence of Streptognathodus isolatus 
     within the S. "wabaunsensis" conodont chronocline.  6 m higher is lowest 
     fusilinid foraminifer Sphaeroschwagerina.
 
  End Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
 
 -- Overlaps With --
  ICS Stage: Kasimovian (306.5 - 303.9)
 
 -- A Substage of --
  Eon:            Phanerozoic        (542 - -5.5012e-005)
  Era:            Paleozoic          (542 - 251)
  Period:         Carboniferous      (359.2 - 299)
  Epoch:          Pennsylvanian      (318.1 - 299)
  Sub-Epoch:      Late Pennsylvanian (306.5 - 299)
  Chinese Stage:  Mapingian          (310 - 299)
  European Epoch: Silesian           (326.4 - 299)
  European Stage: Stephanian         (306.5 - 299)
 
 -- Preceeded By --
  North American Stage: Missourian       (306.5 - 305)
  Russian Stage:        Chamovnicheskian (306 - 305)
 
 -- Followed By --
  Period:               Permian       (299 - 251)
  Epoch:                Early Permian (299 - 270.6)
  ICS Stage:            Asselian      (299 - 294.6)
  North American Stage: Wolfcampian   (299 - 280)
 
 -- Contains the Following Stages --
  ICS Stage:     Gzhelian         (303.9 - 299)
  Russian Stage: Dorogomilovksian (305 - 303.9)
  Russian Stage: Klazminskian     (303.9 - 300.5)
  Russian Stage: Noginskian       (300.5 - 299)
 

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