ammonites

Yushean age/stage

General information
Lower boundary: equal to 4.9 Ma (based on MN 14)
Upper boundary: equal to 2.588 Ma (based on Piacenzian)
Continent: Asia
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Key correlations
Period: Neogene
Epoch: Pliocene
10 million year bin: Cenozoic 6
Contained within
  • Wanganui
  • Cenozoic
  • Phanerozoic
    • Previous intervals
  • Hemphillian
  • Late/Upper Hemphillian
  • late Early Hemphillian
  • early Early Hemphillian
  • MN 13
  • Baodean
    • Next intervals
  • Quaternary
  • Pleistocene
  • MN 17
  • Gelasian
  • Early/Lower Pleistocene
  • Nihewanian
    • Contains
  • Chapadmalalan, MN 15, Waipipian
    • Shares base with
  • "Senecan", Blancan, MN 14, Rexroadian
    • Shares top with
  • Late/Upper Pliocene, MN 16, Neogene, Piacenzian, Pliocene, Tertiary, Villanyian
    • Overlaps with
  • Uquian (3.0 to 1.2 Ma)
  • Mangapanian (3.0 to 2.4 Ma)
  • Ruscinian (5.332 to 3.2 Ma)
  • Early/Lower Pliocene (5.332 to 3.6 Ma)
  • Zanclean (5.332 to 3.6 Ma)
  • Opoitian (5.332 to 3.6 Ma)
  • Montehermosan (6.8 to 4.0 Ma)
    • Appears in scale
  • Neogene Mammal Ages of China (1995)

    • Interval name: