Messinian (7.246 Ma)
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- 0/0/50/0
- Color RGB
- R: 255 G: 255 B: 115
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Stage
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- valid formal name
- Status discussion
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Messinien
- Français
- Messinien
- Italiano
- Messiniano
- English
- Messinian (7.246 Ma)
- Origin of the Name
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Named after the town of Messina (Italia), Sicilia.
- Historical Variants
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Messinien (Mayer-Eymar 1867, Denizot et al. 1957), Messiniano (dal Piaz & Trevisan 1956), Messinium, Messin
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
Age
- Age at top
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- late Miocene
- Note about top
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top of the magnetic polarity zone C3Br.1r, near LAD Triquetrorhabdulus rugosus / FAD Ceratolithus acutus (calcareous nannoplancton)
- Age at base
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- late Miocene
- Note about base
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FAD Globorotalia conomiozea (planctonic Foraminifera), approximately in the middle of the magnetic polarity zone C3Br.1r
Geography
- Type area
- Sicilia (Italia)
References
- Definition
- 1867) : Tableau synchronistiques des couches crétacées inférieures de la zone nord des Alpes et du Jura suisse. Fretz, Zürich (Autographie) (
- Definition
- 1957) : Tertiaire (France, Belgique, Pays-Bas, Luxembourg). Lexique stratigraphique international, vol. 1 Europe, Fasc. 4a VII (