Messinian

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.

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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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end time: 5333000-00
Commons category: Messinian
sRGB color hex triplet: FEF587
start time: 7246000-00

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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.