Messinian
Sign in to saveThe Messinian is in the geologic timescale the last age or uppermost stage of the Miocene. It spans the time between 7.246 ± 0.005 Ma and 5.333 ± 0.005 Ma (million years ago). It follows the Tortonian and is followed by the Zanclean, the first age of the Pliocene.
Key facts
- Geologic timespan.name
- Messinian
- Geologic timespan.color
- Messinian
- Geologic timespan.time_start
- 7.246
- Geologic timespan.time_end
- 5.333
- Geologic timespan.timeline
- Neogene
- Geologic timespan.formerly_part_of
- Tertiary Period/System
- Geologic timespan.name_formality
- Formal
- Geologic timespan.celestial_body
- earth
- Geologic timespan.usage
- Global (ICS)
- Geologic timespan.timescales_used
- ICS Time Scale
- Geologic timespan.chrono_unit
- Age
- Geologic timespan.strat_unit
- Stage
- Geologic timespan.timespan_formality
- Formal
- Geologic timespan.lower_boundary_def
- First regular occurrence of the Planktonic Foraminifer Globorotalia miotumida FAD of the Haptophyte Amaurolithus delicatus
- Geologic timespan.lower_gssp_location
- Oued Akrech section, Rabat, Morocco
- Geologic timespan.lower_gssp_accept_date
- January 2000
- Geologic timespan.upper_boundary_def
- Base of the Thvera magnetic event (C3n.4n), which is only 96 ka (5 precession cycles) younger than the GSSP
- Geologic timespan.upper_gssp_location
- Heraclea Minoa section, Heraclea Minoa, Cattolica Eraclea, Sicily, Italy
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The Messinian is in the geologic timescale the last age or uppermost stage of the Miocene. It spans the time between 7.246 ± 0.005 Ma and 5.333 ± 0.005 Ma (million years ago). It follows the Tortonian and is followed by the Zanclean, the first age of the Pliocene.
The Messinian overlaps the Turolian European Land Mammal Mega Zone (more precisely MN 12 and 13) and the Pontian Central European Paratethys Stage. It also overlaps the late Huayquerian and early Montehermosan South American Land Mammal Ages, and falls inside the more extensive Hemphillian North American Land Mammal Age.