Ynezian Californian Stage
 
                          From 61.5 To 55.8 +/- 0.2 Ma
 
  End Defined By:  Base of negative carbon-isotope excursion.
 
  End Based On:  Gradstein, Ogg, Smith, _A Geologic Time Scale 2004_
 
 -- Overlaps With --
  Sub-Epoch:            Middle Paleocene (61.7 - 58.7)
  ICS Stage:            Selandian        (61.7 - 58.7)
  New Zealand Stage:    Teurian          (65.5 - 56.5)
  New Zealand Stage:    Waipawan         (56.5 - 52)
  North American Stage: Torrejonian      (62.5 - 60.5)
  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)
  Epoch:            Paleocene    (65.5 - 55.8)
  Australian Stage: Wangerripian (61.7 - 52)
  Informal Sub-era: Tertiary     (65.5 - 1.806)
 
 -- 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: Late Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8)
 

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