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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.

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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