Piacenzian
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| Subdivisions of the Quaternary period | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| System | Series | Stage | Age (Ma) |
| Quaternary | Holocene | 0–0.0117 | |
| Pleistocene | Tarantian (Upper) | 0.0117–0.126 | |
| Ionian (Middle) | 0.126–0.781 | ||
| Calabrian (Middle) | 0.781–1.806 | ||
| Gelasian (Lower) | 1.806–2.588 | ||
| Neogene | Pliocene | Piacenzian | older |
| In Europe and North America, the Holocene is subdivided into Preboreal, Boreal, Atlantic, Subboreal and Subatlantic stages of the Blytt-Sernander time scale. There are many regional subdivisions for the Upper or Late Pleistocene, usually these represent locally recognized cold (glacial) and warm (interglacial) periods. The last glacial period ends with the cold Younger Dryas substage. | |||
Piacenzian (also known as Astian, Redonian, or Romanian) is an European Land Mammal Age of the Pliocene Epoch. It spans the time between 3.6 ± 0.005 Ma and 2.588 ± 0.005 Ma (million years ago). It is usually referred to as the Early Late Pliocene, and sometimes, unofficially, as the Middle Pliocene.
It is roughly coeval with the European Mammal Neogene faunal stage 16 (MN 16), overlaps the late Chapadmalalan and early Uquian SALMA ages, and falls inside the more extensive Blancan NALMA age.
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| Neogene period | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Miocene | Pliocene | Pleistocene | Holocene |
| Aquitanian | Burdigalian Langhian | Serravallian Tortonian | Messinian |
Zanclean | Piacenzian (Gelasian) |
Gelasian | Early Middle | Late |
Boreal | Atlantic |
