Serravallian

Also known as Serravallian Age, Serravallian Stage

The Serravallian is, in the geologic timescale, an age or a stage in the middle Miocene Epoch/Series, which spans the time between 13.82 Ma and 11.63 Ma (million years ago). The Serravallian follows the Langhian and is followed by the Tortonian.

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Geologic timespan.name: Serravallian
Geologic timespan.color: Serravallian
Geologic timespan.time_start: 13.82
Geologic timespan.time_end: 11.63
Geologic timespan.timeline: Neogene
Geologic timespan.formerly_part_of: Tertiary Period/System
Geologic timespan.chrono_name: 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: Mi3b Oxygen-isotopic event (Global cooling episode)
Geologic timespan.lower_gssp_location: Ras il Pellegrin section, Fomm ir-Riħ Bay, Malta
Geologic timespan.lower_gssp_accept_date: 2007
Geologic timespan.upper_boundary_def: LAD of the Haptophyte Discoaster kugleri
Geologic timespan.upper_gssp_location: Monte dei Corvi Beach section, Ancona, Italy

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Commons category: Serravallian
sRGB color hex triplet: FFFF59
start time: 13820000-0
end time: 11630000-0

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It overlaps with the middle of the Astaracian European Land Mammal Mega Zone, the upper Barstovian and lower Clarendonian North American Land Mammal Ages and the Laventan and lower Mayoan South American Land Mammal Ages. It is also coeval with the Sarmatian and upper Badenian Stages of the Paratethys time scale of Central and eastern Europe.