Messiniano
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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- age
- Part of
- Miocene
- Named after
- Messina
- Followed by
- Zanclean
- Follows
- Tortonian
- Significant event
- Messinian salinity crisis
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- end time
- 5333000-00
- topic's main category
- Category:Messinian
- Commons category
- Messinian
- sRGB color hex triplet
- FEF587
- start time
- 7246000-00
- named by
- Karl Mayer-Eymar
- partially coincident with
- Turolian
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Article · Português
Messiniano, na escala de tempo geológico, é a idade da época Miocena do período Neogeno da era Cenozoica do éon Fanerozoico que está compreendida entre 7 milhões e 246 mil e 5 milhões e 332 mil anos atrás, aproximadamente. A idade Messiniana sucede a idade Tortoniana de sua época e precede a idade Zancliana da época Pliocena do seu período.
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