ammonites

Kirkfield age/stage

General information
Lower boundary: after 457.5 Ma (based on Mohawkian)
Upper boundary: before 455.8 Ma (based on Sandbian)
Continent: Europe
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See map of collections within this interval
Key correlations
Period: Ordovician
Epoch: Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage: early Late Ordovician
10 million year bin: Ordovician 4
Contained within
  • Burrellian
  • Caradoc
  • Late/Upper Llandeilo
  • Middle Llandeilo
  • Kukruse
  • Edenian
  • Trentonian
  • Wildernessian
  • Ashbyan
  • Chatfieldian
  • Turinian
  • Berounian
  • Hanjiang
  • Neichiashanian
  • Haljala
  • Caradocian
  • Franklinian
  • Kirkfieldian
  • Rocklandian
  • Shermanian
  • Blackriveran
  • Late/Upper Ordovician
  • Aijiashan
  • Xiaoxita
  • Shikou
  • Viru
  • Llandeilo
  • Ordovician
  • Paleozoic
  • Phanerozoic
    • Previous intervals
  • Costonian
  • Liben
  • Black River
  • Chazy
  • Whiterockian
  • Aurelucian
  • Volfreyan
  • Dobrotivian
    • Next intervals
  • Rawtheyan
  • Actonian
  • Marshbrookian
  • Rakvere
  • Streffordian
  • Cheneyan
  • Woolstonian
  • middle Late Ordovician
  • Katian
    • Shares base with
  • Bohdalec, Johvi, Mohawkian, Oandu, Sherman
    • Shares top with
  • Idavere, Keila, Letna, Sandbian, early Late Ordovician
    • Overlaps with
  • Eastonian (456.1 to 449.5 Ma)
  • Longvillian (457.5 to 455.8 Ma)
  • Soudleyan (457.5 to 455.8 Ma)
  • Harnagian (457.5 to 455.8 Ma)
  • Zahorany (457.5 to 455.8 Ma)
  • Vinice (457.5 to 455.8 Ma)
  • Rockland (457.5 to 455.8 Ma)
  • Gisbornian (460.9 to 456.1 Ma)
    • Appears in scale
  • Harland Ordovician of the Eastern USA (1990)

    • Interval name: