The Paleobiology Database

Mammal Neogene Units

Interval	Maximum correlate	Minimum correlate	Ma

MN 17	Gelasian
top is about 2.0 Ma
			2.5

MN 16	Piacenzian
			3.2

MN 15	Zanclean	Piacenzian
			4.2

MN 14	Zanclean
			4.9

MN 13	Messinian	Zanclean
between 6.8 and 7.2 Ma
			7

MN 12	Tortonian
between 8.0 and 7.5 Ma
			7.75

MN 11	Tortonian
			8.7

MN 10	Tortonian
			9.7

MN 9	Tortonian
			11.1

MN 7 + 8	Serravallian	Tortonian
between 13 and 12.5 Ma
			12.75

MN 6	Serravallian
			13.7

MN 5	Langhian
			16

MN 4	Burdigalian
between 16.6 and 17.2 Ma
			16.9

MN 3	Burdigalian
			20

MN 2	Aquitanian	Burdigalian
			22.4

MN 1	Aquitanian
base is "almost coincident with the Oligocene-Miocene boundary"
			23.8

Authorizer: J. Alroy Enterer: J. Alroy

Continent: Europe Rank of each interval: chron/zone

Basis of scale: paleontological

Comments: correlations to global stages and subepochs are not discussed, so they are inferred from the Gradstein et al. 2004 time scale