Wheelerian Californian Stage
 
                       From 1.9 To 0.01143 +/- 0.00013 Ma
 
  End Defined By:  Excatly 10,000 Carbon-14 years BP.  Near the end of the 
     Younger Dryas cold spell.
 
  End Based On:  CALIB Radiocarbon Calculator version 4.4 using INTCAL98 
     calibration curve.
 
 -- Overlaps With --
  Epoch:                Pliocene      (5.332 - 1.806)
  Sub-Epoch:            Late Pliocene (3.6 - 1.806)
  ICS Stage:            Gelasian      (2.588 - 1.806)
  Informal Period:      Pleistogene   (1.806 - -5.5012e-005)
  Informal Sub-era:     Tertiary      (65.5 - 1.806)
  Informal Sub-era:     Quaternary    (1.806 - -5.5012e-005)
  New Zealand Stage:    Nukumaruan    (1.96 - 1.1)
  North American Stage: Blancan       (4.75 - 1.806)
 
 -- A Substage of --
  Eon:    Phanerozoic (542 - -5.5012e-005)
  Era:    Cenozoic    (65.5 - -5.5012e-005)
  Period: Neogene     (23.03 - -5.5012e-005)
 
 -- Preceeded By --
  Californian Stage: Venturian (2.2 - 1.9)
  Japanese Stage:    Suchian   (3 - 1.9)
 
 -- Followed By --
  Epoch: Holocene (0.01143 - -5.5012e-005)
 
 -- Contains the Following Epochs --
  Epoch: Pleistocene (1.806 - 0.01143)
 

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